NQAPIA National Summit Training Manual 2019

National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance

National Leadership Summit for Leaders of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Asian, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander Organizations

August 22-25, 2019 Las Vegas, NV

Thank You Summit Sponsors Diamond Sponsor

Act Blue for travel support Caesars Entertainment for Welcoming Reception

Gold Sponsor

AARP for Health & Healing Justice APIAVote for Census Comcast / NBC Universal

Pearl Sponsor

AT&T Masto Foundation Thor Labs Verizon Foundation

Jade Sponsor

Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Macys’ National LGBTQ Task Force Rosenberg Foundation Weston Miliken

Lotus Sponsor

California Endowment for California attendees PFLAG for Parents

Jasmine Sponsor

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) Toyota Financial Services Horizons Foundation

Thank You NQAPIA Supporters Alphawood Foundation Aratani Foundation Arcus Foundation David Bohnett Foundation Borealis Fund for Trans Generations Borealis Impact Litigation Fund Hyams Foundation OCA Greater Houston Open Society Foundations (internat’l) Walter & Evelyn Haas, Jr. Fund Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Wild Geese Foundation

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NQAPIA 2019 National Leadership Summit AGENDA OVERVIEW THURSDAY, AUGUST 22 - Off site 1:00 – 6:00 pm

Registration

12 Noon – 5:00 pm

Planning Meeting • DesiQ Diaspora • Pacifika Gender Justice Conference

2:00 – 5:00 pm

Planning Meeting for KQTCon - National Korean Conference

7:00 – 10:00 pm

Welcoming Reception (off-site)

10:00 pm

Hospitality Suite Open

FRIDAY, AUGUST 23 8:00 – 9:00 am Registration 9:00 – 9:45 am Plenary: Introduction to the Summit 10:00 – 11:30 am

Workshop Session 1 – Choose one: • Leadership Styles (90 minutes) • LGBT Org Best Practices – Building Membership through Social, Political, Peer Support, and Educational Programming • The Rise of the Right in Chinese and Asian / South Asian Communities • Health & Healing Justice: Protecting Our Care

11:45am – 2:30 pm

Luncheon Plenary: Building a Queer Asian Movement NQAPIA Strategic Plan & New Member Engagement Model Break Out Groups:

2:45 – 4:15 pm

Workshop Session 2 – Choose one: • Building Leaderful Groups: How to Grow Relationships & Capacity (3 HOURS – Part 1 of a 2 Part Workshop) • More Money, More Power! Grassroots Fundraising Skills • Who is the LGBT API Community: Demographics and Data and Opinions • Why the 2020 Census Matters for our Communities

4:30 – 6:00 pm

Workshop Session 3 – Choose one: • Building Leaderful Groups: How to Grow Relationships & Capacity (3 HOURS – Part 2 of a 2 Part Workshop) • Foundation Grants, Organizational Legal Liabilities, and Going 501(c)3: What you should know: Ask a Lawyer and a Funder • Power, Privilege and Consent (This workshop will be offered again on Saturday).

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LGBT Equality and API Career Advancement in the Workplace

7:00 – 9:00 am

Dinner – (off-site)

10:00 pm

Hospitality Suite Open

SATURDAY, AUGUST 24 8:00 – 9:00 am

Story Telling Photo Shoot and Video Taping

9:00 – 10:00 am

Caucus Meetings and Clinics

10:15 – 11:45 am

Workshop Session 4 – Choose one: • Co-creating our Realities: Communication as Conflict Resolution and Giving and Receiving Feedback • Digital Fundraising 101: How to build sustainable online fundraising programs • Religious Acceptance in the API Community • Fighting for Our Rights

12 Noon – 3:00 pm

Luncheon Plenary: Taking Action Phone banking for Immigrant’s Rights (RFA) & LGBT Equality Act

3:30 – 5:00 pm

Workshop Session 5 – Choose one: • Radical Welcome: Creating Inclusive & Accessible Communities • Family Acceptance • Power, Privilege and Consent (This is a repeat of the same workshop offered Friday) • One on One Post-Summit Coaching Clinic

7:00 – 10:00 pm

Community Catalyst Awards Dinner and Fundraiser (off-site)

10:00 pm

Hospitality Suite Open

SUNDAY, AUGUST 25 8:30 – 9:30 am

Ethnic Caucus Meetings

9:30 – 10:30 am

Regional Caucuses

10:45 – 11:15 pm

Closing Plenary

11:30 – 2:30 am

Story Telling Photo Shoot and Video Taping (continued)

11:30, 12:30

Transit to Airport

11:30 am – 5:00 pm NQAPIA National Board of Directors Meeting & Fundraising Drive

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CAESARS ENTERTAINMENT IS PROUD TO SUPPORT

THE NQAPIA CONFERENCE We salute the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance and celebrate the impact that Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer individuals have had on our organization, our communities, and on our nation as a whole.

Agenda

WE CELEBRATE YOU

NQAPIA 2019 National Leadership Summit Hampton Inn Tropicana, 4975 Dean Martin Dr, Las Vegas, NV 89118 Las Vegas ! August 22-25, 2019 FULL AGENDA THURSDAY, AUGUST 22 - Off site 1:00 – 6:00 pm

Registration Hampton Inn Breakfast Area

12 Noon – 5:00 pm

Planning Meeting for DesiQ Diaspora ACDC Suite 2 Conference Room

12 Noon – 5:00 pm

Planning Meeting for Pacifika Gender Justice Conference ACDC Suite 3 Conference Room

2:00 – 5:00 pm

Planning Meeting for KQTCon - National Korean Conference ACDC Suite 3 Multi-Purpose Hall Off site at Asian Community Development Council (ACDC) 2610 S. Jones Blvd. Suite #3, Las Vegas, NV 89146

6:15 – 6:45 pm

Order Lyft Cars for transport to off-site venue. Use app.

Use NQAPIA Lyft Credits: Promo Code NQAPIA2019

7:00 – 10:00 pm

Welcoming Reception Off site at Bally’s (Sponsored by Caesar’s Entertainment) Bally’s Indigo Tower, Skyview Ballroom, 26th floor In the Bally's Las Vegas Hotel & Casino 3645 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109 Photobooth and Free gifts sponsored by Macy’s Summit Emcees: Milap Patel & Shilpa Joshi, NQAPIA Board of Directors Welcoming Remarks: • Stan Fong, NQAPIA Co-Chair of the Board • Courtney Moore, Director, Diversity and Inclusion, Caesars Entertainment • Alfonso David, National President, Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Special video presentation – NQAPIA Conference Introduce Staff, Trainers, and Board

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Organizational Presentation Go-Around Join us to officially open the conference space, get to know other participants, hear celebrations and challenges from each NQAPIA group present, and set intentions for maximizing our time together as individuals and as a collective for the weekend. Food, drinks, and photo booth fun will also be served!

• Shreya Shah, Training for Change • Kim Huynh, Training for Change 10:00 pm

Hospitality Suite Open at Hampton Inn Tropicana Las Vegas Suite 629

FRIDAY, AUGUST 23 8:00 – 9:00 am

Registration Foyer Outside Salon A & Salon B

8:00 – 9:00 am

Breakfast Breakfast Area

9:00 – 9:45 am Salon A & Salon B

Introduction to the Summit Framing the Weekend, Review Goals, How We Got Here • Glenn D. Magpantay, NQAPIA Executive Director Community Agreements & Sexual Liberation • Khudai Tanveer, NQAPIA Membership Organizer Funding Transparency • Amanda Saich, NQAPIA Development Assistant Special Announcements: o 5 hours of free consulting time and coaching after the Summit o Story Telling Photo Shoot and Video Taping

10:00 – 11:30 am

Workshop Session 1 – Choose one:

Health & Healing Justice: Protecting Our Care After a series of Movement Convergences, NQAPIA’s launched a new program on Health & Healing Justice. Join this workshop to learn about our campaigns to preserve the LGBT protections in the Affordable Care Act, caring for our loved ones as they age, and a campaign to lower prescription drug prices. The prescription drugs impact transgender people who require hormonal therapy, gay and bisexual men on PrEP, people who suffer from depression or anxiety, and other mental illness.

• Scott Tanaka, MSW, Project Specialist, Advocacy & Consumer Affairs AARP, Public Policy Institute Center to Champion Nursing in America Fire Meeting Room 7

LGBT Org Best Practices – Building Membership through Social, Political, Peer Support, and Educational Programming Learn how to develop programs to meet member needs, and patience/perseverance!

Come and share your stories, tips and decisions that can help all of us find the support that our groups and members need through Social, Political Peer Support Education programming.

• Glenn D. Magpantay, NQAPIA • Sunjay Kumar, Invisible to Invincible • Jasmin Hoo, Community Organizer, APIENC (API Equality - Northern California) Salon A The Rise of the Right in Chinese and Asian / South Asian Communities A disturbing trend has emerged in the Chinese and Asian American communities.

Conservative forces are organizing in Asian ethnic communities like never before starting with efforts to challenge California Proposition 8 against same-sex marriage, then struggles against reproductive rights, opposition to affirmative action, police misconduct and Peter Liang, and finally last fall’s ballot referendum to repeal Massachusetts’ transgender protections. Conservatives are coming together to fight against progressive struggles. Speakers will disuses this trend and how it affects LGBTQ API communities and then strategize for ways to counter this recent phenomenon.

• Cathy Dang, Center for Empowered Politics • Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Equality Labs • Moderator - Amanda Saich, NQAPIA Development Assistant Salon B Let Us Upgrade Us: The Multitudes of Leaderships in Action Come to this interactive training to gain clarity on not just your own, but also your teams and organization’s leadership styles and strengths. While it might not sound so necessary at first, this learning can be immediately applied as a compass in working through common team and organizational challenges- which we’ll start to dig into together. When we’re not aware of various leadership styles, we are less able to feel like we have healthy teams which work together, and more likely to run into conflict within our work. Lastly, we’ll support you to apply this framework back home so you can amplify it to build up your own infrastructure and culture- whether through stronger recruitment, leadership development for members and boards, activity planning, etc. We’ll close out by sharing lots of tips and tricks so you can successfully facilitate this framework with your organization to be more attuned to each other and the impact you can make in your communities.

• Shreya Shah, Training for Change • Kim Huynh, Training for Change Wind Meeting Room

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11:45am – 2:30 pm Salon A & B

Luncheon Plenary: Transforming a Queer Asian Moment to Movement Mandatory Member Group Meeting.

As we launch the beginning of the NQAPIA’s new 3-5 year Strategic Plan we want to take a moment to shift the structure of engagement between NQAPIA and Member Organizations. Hear about NQAPIA’s shift from creating these moments to organizing a movement. Let’s talk about how to build power, raise our voices and win TOGETHER. • Khudai Tanveer, NQAPIA Membership Organizer • Patrick Canteros, NQAPIA OCA Summer Advocate Break Out Groups:

2:45 – 4:15 pm

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Health & Healing Justice – Naushaba North Wind Meeting Room

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Genderfree Summit - Joseph & Cathy Salon A – Table Sign Back of Room

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Chinese Right on WeChat -- Amanda Salon B – Table Sign Front of Room

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Hindu Nationalism -- Shilpa Salon B – Table Sign Back of Room

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Legislative Rights & Protections -Kham Salon A – Table Sign Front of Room

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Religious Acceptance Work – Serena South Wind Meeting Room

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Family Acceptance - Clara Foyer Outside Salon B

Workshop Session 2 – Choose one:

Who is the LGBT API Community: Demographics and Data and Opinions This workshop will offer unique insights in the LGBT API community. The first presentation will unveil results from CMI Annual LGBTQ Community Survey which will offer an Asian and Asian ethnic breakdown of characteristics of the LGBT API community. The second will look at results from multilingual Asian American election day exit polls and will look at mainstream Asian American support for (or opposite to) same sex marriage and legal protections. It will offer insights in the work that we need to do to provide acceptance and understanding among Asian immigrant communities.

• Glenn D. Magpantay, NQAPIA • Lu Xun, Research Director, Community Marketing, Inc • Justin Unga, Human Rights Campaign • Moderator – Kim Nguyen, NQAPIA Board Member Salon A

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Why the 2020 Census Matters for our Communities Next year, the federal government will attempt to take a complete count – a census – of the nation’s population. An accurate census is vitally important. The census is used as the basis to allocate over $300 billion in federal funding, enforce an array of civil rights laws, and apportion political power. All persons are to be counted and participation is mandated by federal law. However, many segments of the LGBT API community, such as undocumented immigrants and people of transgender experience, are fearful of the government and may be unwilling to participate in the census. Come learn more about the census, its impact on our communities, and what can be done.

• Taissa Morimoto, National LGBTQ Task Force • Edgar Ramos, U.S. Census Bureau • Girlie O'Brien, U.S. Census Bureau • Will Lim, APIA Vote • Moderator - Conor Huynh, NQAPIA Admin Assistant Salon B More Money, More Power! Grassroots Fundraising Skills Learn how to ask for money, build a prospect list, do a fundraising ask and more! This workshop is especially tailored for volunteer-based community organizations to learn fundraising in a climate of diminishing grants and corporate support. Participants will come away prepared to grow their organization’s resources.

• Adri Rosembert, Nonprofit Outreach Manager, ActBlue, AB Charities • Saurabh Bajaj, Director of Individual Fundraising, National LGBTQ Task Force Fire Meeting Room Building Leaderful Groups: How to Grow Relationships & Capacity (3 HOURS – Part 1 of a 2 Part Workshop) Have you noticed that it’s always the same people planning your group’s next action or social event? Is your core team stretched too thin? Do you want to bring in new energy but aren’t sure how to? When we effectively cultivate others’ leadership, we create much more room for collaboration, for expansion, for building power as we nurture groups and movements that are full of leaders, and allow for all of our identities to inform how we organize. In this workshop, we’ll dig into the common challenges that all of us as leaders of LGBTQ API groups face in developing and expanding leadership in our often small staff- and volunteer-led groups. Then we’ll do some skill-building practice in having oneon-one conversations to deepen relationships and understand each others’ stakes and apply a leadership escalator tool as one framework for how to develop grounded and resilient leadership.

• Shreya Shah, Training for Change • Kim Huynh, Training for Change Wind Meeting Room

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4:30 – 6:00 pm

Workshop Session 3 – Choose one:

Foundation Grants, Organizational Legal Liabilities, and Going 501(c)3: What you should know: Ask a Lawyer and a Funder How do we get a grant from a foundation? What are our legal liabilities and responsibilities as an all-volunteer organization? Should we incorporate and apply for 501(c)3? Come learn about the grant cycle, tips on grant-writing, the benefits and obligations of incorporating as a non-profit charitable tax-exempt, and what to watch out for an all-volunteer organization.

• Glenn D. Magpantay, Attorney at Law, NQAPIA • Sparks, Executive Director, Masto Foundation, Seattle, WA Salon A LGBT Equality and API Career Advancement in the Workplace This workshop will showcase how companies are meeting the needs of a diverse workforce and diversifying their leadership in meeting the challenges that come with a diverse world. Presenters will discuss how many companies and corporations are addressing some of the barriers that API LGBTQs face in the modern workplace, including Employee Resource Groups (ERG) for LGBTQs and APIs, allyship training programs to educate co-workers about the experiences of LGBTQs, and workplace protections and culture that affirms all employees so that their best talents can fully come to the fore.

• Jenny Non, ThorLabs • Amber Meyers, EQUAL Board, Caesars Entertainment • Karen Murakami, Spectrum BPG (Business Partnership Groups), Toyota • Moderator – Andrew Chou, NQAPIA Board Member & Bank of America Salon B Power, Privilege and Consent (This workshop will be offered again on Saturday).

In this workshop we will discuss the intersections of power and privilege and how to create safe spaces in our work and lives in the A/PI LGBTQ+ community. Some of the topics that folks can expect to engage in will include: consent (what it is, why it’s required, how to practice it), gender-based violence, safer spaces, sex positivity, power, and privilege. This will be an interactive workshop with discussion, media and art work used to create safer community and relationships.

• Krittika Ghosh, Executive Director, A/PI Domestic Violence Resource Project (DVRP) Fire Meeting Room Building Leaderful Groups: How to Grow Relationships & Capacity (3 HOURS – Part 2 of a 2 Part Workshop) See above for description.

• Shreya Shah, Training for Change • Kim Huynh, Training for Change Wind Meeting Room

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6:15 – 6:45 pm

Order Lyft Cars for transport to off-site venue. Use app.

Use NQAPIA Lyft Credits: Promo Code NQAPIA2019

7:00 – 9:00 am

Dinner (off-site) Off Site at Ping Pang Pong Restaurant in Gold Coast Hotel & Casino 4000 W Flamingo Rd, Las Vegas, NV 89103

10:00 pm

Hospitality Suite Open Suite 629

SATURDAY, AUGUST 24 8:00 – 9:00 am

Breakfast Breakfast Area Story Telling Photo Shoot and Video Taping Suite 629

9:00 – 10:00 am

Caucus Meetings and Clinics •

Sign up for Consulting Time and Coaching after Summit Hosted by Conor, Shreya Shah, Kim Huynh North Wind Meeting Room

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Story Telling Photo Shoot and Video Taping Hosted by Patrick Lee & Ken Takeuchi Suite 629

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Funder Clinic, Ask a Funder Hosted by Sparks, Masto Foundation, Seattle, WA Salon A – Table Sign Front of Room

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Legal Clinic, Ask a Lawyer Hosted by Glenn D. Magpantay, Attorney at Law, NQAPIA Salon A – Table Sign Back of Room

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Digital Fundraising Hosted by Adri Rosembert, ActBlue, AB Charities Salon B – Table Sign Front of Room

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Parents who Love their LGBT kids Hosted by Stacey Shigaya, LoAn Nguyen, Charmaine Hussain, HK Suh Fire Meeting Room

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Trans and Gender Non-Confirming Hosted by Cathy Chu South Wind Meeting Room

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Others?

Earth Meeting Room

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10:15 – 11:45 am

Workshop Session 4 – Choose one:

Co-creating our Realities: Communication as Conflict Resolution and Giving and Receiving Feedback Most of us have been in that moment where it seems we’ve all agreed to a decision, agreement, or are in alignment where it most matters, but later find out we were on really different pages. Strong communication relies on relating, adaptiveness, and being fully present to the specific moment and the larger context at hand- things that sound easy but actually are deeply challenging in practice (especially when we’re moving with urgency).

This workshop is not just for those who think they need to grow their capacities to communicate better, but also those who believe their communication skills are close to flawless! This workshop will redefine ‘conflict’ and focus on skill-building to set boundaries, express strong yeses and nos, practice direct communication, and give/receive grounded feedback. Importantly, our small group and paired work will reflect back to us how and if we’re making the kind of impact we want to make with each other.

• Shreya Shah, Training for Change • Kim Huynh, Training for Change Wind Meeting Room Digital Fundraising 101: How to build sustainable online fundraising programs Building and maintaining a sustainable online fundraising program for groups working on social justice issues for the long haul — one that can actually fund your organization long-term and engage thousands of supporters — can feel daunting. We’ll cover the tools and skills you need to build your base of supporters and the strategy you need to raise more money online.

• Adri Rosembert, Nonprofit Outreach Manager, ActBlue, AB Charities Salon B Religious Acceptance in the API Community: Focus on Christian and Hindu This interactive workshop will create a safe, sacred space where we share, affirm and empower our experiences and realities as intergenerational API LGBTQ people and allies in the context of acceptance in our family and faith communities; and to share resources for API LGBTQ advocacy in faith based organizations, churches and families.

NOTE: NQAPIA is also developing more work focusing on Buddhism, Sikhism, and Islam, as well as Christianity and Hinduism.

• Serena Poon, Progressive Asian America Christian Conference • Karen Murakami, Open Arms at Faith United Methodist Church, McKinney, TX • Aruna Rao, Desi Rainbow Parents & Allies • Mani Soma, KhushDC Fire Meeting Room Fighting for Our Rights The new Congress is an opportunity to advance federal legislation that protects all of our communities, such as the: LGBT Equality Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender-identity in employment, housing, education, and public

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spaces; Reuniting Families Act to preserve family-based immigration to keep families and LGBTQ couples together, reduce visa backlogs, expand professional worker H1B visa and Diversity Visas, and Dream Act so undocumented immigrant youth can continue to live, work, and study in the United States without fear of deportation. Learn about these bills, the national strategy, and what you can do about them.

• Sam Yu, Communications Coordinator, National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC) • Justin Unga, Human Rights Campaign • Moderator – Shilpa Joshi, NQAPIA Board Member Salon A 12 Noon – 3:00 pm Salon A & Salon B

Luncheon Plenary: Taking Action Let’s all work together to support o The LGBT Equality Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender-identity; o Reuniting Families Act to preserve family-based immigration, and the o Dream Act to protect undocumented immigrant youth.

Everyone will be phone banking supporters get Congress to pass these bills. A briefing and training on phone banking will be provided.

Phone banking is a useful skill to raise money, turn people out for an event, and to move people to action.

• Moof Mayeda, NQAPIA Board of Directors • Conor Huynh, NQAPIA Administrative Assistant

3:30 – 5:00 pm

Workshop Session 5 – Choose one:

Radical Welcome: Creating Inclusive & Accessible Communities How do we welcome community members and have them keep coming back? During this workshop, we will explore what it means to create community space that is more inclusive, accessible, and welcoming. Participants will be pushed to connect their personal social justice values to tangible ways of radically welcoming and mindfully building relationships with community members. We will also share concrete tools for making accessible events and practicing radical welcome.

• Sammie Ablaza Wills, Executive Director, APIENC (API Equality-Northern Calif) • Yuan Wang, Community Organizer, APIENC Salon B Family Acceptance Come and hear Asian American parents share their experiences of confusion, fear, love, acceptance, and celebration of their LGBTQ children. Parents of LGBTQ kids will talk about the unique cultural issues in our communities, and support LGBTQ people who want to come out to their parents. Our goal is to bring families together.

• HK Suh, Korean American Rainbow Parents, Virginia • Stacey L. Shigaya, Sakura Foundation & PFLAG Denver • Charmaine Hussain, Desi Rainbow Parents, Fremont

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LoAn Nguyen, API Rainbow Parents of PFLAG-NYC Moderator - Clara Yoon, Korean American Rainbow Parents / API Rainbow Parents of PFLAG-NYC Salon A • •

Power, Privilege and Consent (This is a repeat of the same workshop offered Friday) In this workshop we will discuss the intersections of power and privilege and how to create safe spaces in our work and lives in the A/PI LGBTQ+ community. Some of the topics that folks can expect to engage in will include: consent (what it is, why it’s required, how to practice it), gender-based violence, safer spaces, sex positivity, power, and privilege. This will be an interactive workshop with discussion, media and art work used to create safer community and relationships.

• Krittika Ghosh, Executive Director, A/PI Domestic Violence Resource Project Fire Meeting Room One on One Post-Summit Coaching Clinic Come meet with seasoned consultants who can help you identify what support and coaching you need after the summit and how NQAPIA’s team of trainer can help.

Groups will be offered 5 hours of free consulting time after the Summit but spots are limited.

• Shreya Shah, Training for Change • Kim Huynh, Training for Change Earth Meeting Room 6:15 – 6:45 pm

Order Lyft Cars for transport to off-site venue. Use app.

Use NQAPIA Lyft Credits: Promo Code NQAPIA2019

7:00 – 10:00 pm

Community Catalyst Awards Dinner and Fundraiser (off-site) Off Site at Bropards Filipino restaurant 3399 S Jones Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89146 NQAPIA Member Awards for • LGBTQ Visibility • Community Education • Community Building and Programs • Advocacy • Membership Growth • Partnership with NQAPIA • Building Local Community Coalition • Board of Directors Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award 2019 • NQAPIA Federation Member Group of the Year 2019 A Special Message from Kham Moua Karaoke to follow

10:00 pm

Hospitality Suite Open Suite 629

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 25 NOTE: Hotel checkout time at 11:00 am. Feel free to check your luggage in the lobby or bring your luggage to the foyer outside Salon A & B. 8:00 – 9:00 am

Breakfast Breakfast Area

8:30 – 9:30 am

Ethnic Caucus Meetings Let's meet each other again, discuss ways to continue the work, and how to keep in touch.

9:30 – 10:30 am

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South Asian – Facilitated by Shilpa Joshi & Milap Patel Salon A

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Southeast Asian – Facilitated by Conor Huynh & Kham Moua Earth Meeting Rooms

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Pacific Islander – Facilitated by Joseph Seia South Wind Meeting Room

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Chinese – Facilitated by Amanda Saich Salon B

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Korean – Facilitated by Patrick Lee Fire Meeting Room

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Filipinx – Facilitated by Patrick Canteros North Wind Meeting Room

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Suggest your own Suite 629

Regional Caucuses – Choose One: Discuss bringing the Summit home and continuing the work. What to do next, what support is needed, and how to keep in touch.

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Midwest – Facilitated by Nick Kor & Kim Nguyen Fire Meeting Room

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The South – Facilitated by Stan Fong & Navid Ladha Earth Meeting Room

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Pacific Northwest – Facilitated by Shilpa Joshi North Wind Meeting Room

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California – Facilitated by Cathy Chu & Julia Rhee & Yuan Wang Salon B

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Northeast – Facilitated by Andrew Chou & Kham Moua Salon A

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Elsewhere/ National – Facilitated by Moof Mayeda Suite 629 16

10:45 – 11:15 pm Salon A & Salon B

Closing Plenary: Evaluations Final Reflections and Thank Yous • Amanda Saich, NQAPIA Development Assistant

11:30 – 2:30 am

Story Telling Photo Shoot and Video Taping (continued) Suite 629

11:30 – 3:00

Transit to Airport by Hotel Shuttle

11:30 am – 5:00 pm NQAPIA National Board of Directors Meeting & Fundraising Drive • Fundraising Training by ActBlue / AB Charities Earth Meeting Room

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Clinics, Interviews, Sign Ups Thurs 5-6pm Friday Breakfast 8-9am Saturday Breakfast 8-9am & 9-10am Share Your Story sit for a photo shoot and short video taping to share your story about family immigration, anti-LGBT discrimination, or your need for health care and affordable prescription drugs. Everyone who sits gets a free gift. Located in Suite 629 – Renamed “Hospitality Suite” • Staff: Patrick Lee, Ken Takeuchi Post-Summit Consulting come meet with seasoned consultants who can help you identify what support and coaching you need after the summit and how NQAPIA’s team of trainer can help.

Groups will be offered 5 hours of free consulting time after the Summit but spots are limited.

• Staff: Conor Huynh, Shreya Shah, Kim Huynh Funder Clinic come meet with a funder and ask every question that you have always wanted but were afraid to ask. Feel free to bring a grant proposal to review and practice how to pitch a grant.

• Staff: Amanda Saich, Sparks Parents who love this LGBTQ Kids come get a hug and support from an Asian parent who loves their LGBTQ kid. Learn the perspective of a parent and their struggle of moving from initial shame and disappointment to acceptance understanding.

• Staff: Clara Yoon Other Table Chats: During meal times, attendees are encouraged to meet and caucus among themselves. Feel free to set up a sign for a special table with a focused discussion.

• Staff: Khudai Tanveer Hospitality Suite is Suite 629. An alternative space that is alcohol-free, gambling-free, and especially welcoming space for young people, women, and people of transgender experience.

Gender-neutral restrooms are located throughout Hampton Inn Conference Center, at ACDC, Bally’s, and Bropards. There are no gender-neutral restrooms in the Gold Coast Casino, the site of the Friday night dinner in Ping Pong Pang Restaurant. Please use the restroom of your choice, which is also allowed under local law. Or if you would like to have bathroom buddy, please contact staff or volunteers.

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Summit Policies & Practices

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION IS OUR FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION AND DRIVES OUR BUSINESS FORWARD.

Social Media Guide Our hashtag for the conference is #NQAPIA2019. As you document your conference experience on social media platforms (such as Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and Instagram), try to include the hashtag so it’s easily searchable. You can also click on and scroll through the hashtag to see what others are posting about!

Follow NQAPIA’s own social media platforms to keep up to speed on what we’re up to: Instagram: @NQAPIA Twitter: @NQAPIA Facebook: facebook.com/nqapia Some tips for fun and effective social media use at the conference: ● Take pictures ○ If you have a smartphone and/or camera, use the opportunity to snap lots of shots so we can get visuals on what’s going on. Snap photos of you and your fellow presenters, friends, family, new allies, whoever! ● Do it live ○ It’s often easier to get an accurate sense of what’s going on at a conference if you post live, especially on Twitter. ● Ask first ○ As a community who cares about each other, asking first before tagging or photographing someone is always a good rule of thumb. During the conference, folks who don’t want to be photographed will have stickers indicating that. Let’s build that respect and trust together!

If you have any questions or concerns about social media at the conference, feel free to reach out to us through Instagram or by email at communications@nqapia.org.

Disability Justice We affirm that our approach to disability is informed by the social model and minority model. This means that we see the environment and social structures as the barriers to people with disabilities. Thus, it is the responsibility for the environment/social to change, not the person with the disability. Additionally, we see people with disabilities as a minority group. When we use the term disability; this encompasses those with physical, mental, learning, and cognitive disabilities. Lastly, we all have multiple and intersecting identities and having a disability is one of those identities.

Some ways to be inclusive of those with disabilities: ● For presenters, use the accessible and Universal Design presentation guidelines we have offered; ● For conference participants, please acknowledge your privilege; ● Use "people first" language (“people with disabilities” or “person with a disability”) ; " are we sticking to this? I’ve heard that some people prefer disability-first but I don’t want to speak on behalf of ● Know the word “disability” is not a bad or negative word; it is preferred to be used versus “ability;”

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● Understand there is a disability identity, disability community, and disability culture; ● Understand some people who are d/Deaf do not identify as having a disability; ● Do not make assumptions; often, people have “invisible” disabilities; ● Is larger plenary rooms, a scent-free space will be designated; and ● Support people’s own self-care as they participate in the conference.

If you have any issues, complaints, or concerns around disability and/or accommodations, please contact any NQAPIA staff member or Planning Committee Member.

Transgender/Gender Non-Conforming Etiquette and Inclusion Adapted from the National LGBTQ Task Force Creating Change Conference To ensure that transgender and gender non-conforming (transgender, transsexual, gender non-conforming, genderqueer and more) members of our community and movement feel included by all who attend this conference, and to work against harmful systems that validate non-trans bodies over trans bodies, please read and act upon the following: Pay attention to a person’s purposeful gender expression but remember that your interpretation of that person’s external appearance may not match their gender identity. You cannot know the gender or sex of someone by their physical body, voice, or mannerisms. We consider it polite to ask, “What pronoun do you prefer?” before using pronouns or gendered words for anyone. When you are unsure of a person’s gender identity and you don’t have an opportunity to ask someone what words they prefer, try using that person’s name or gender-neutral phrases like “the person in the red shirt,” instead of “that woman or man.” If you have met a person before, and their gender expression is now different, be open to the fact that they may now be identifying as a different gender and feel good about asking for their preferred gender pronouns.

One way of acknowledging transgender people’s needs is to designate restrooms gender neutral, which we have done here at this NQAPIA conference with educational signs. In bathrooms, many transgender people face harassment that can lead to anything from deep discomfort to arrest or death. Regardless of what bathroom you are in, please let everyone pee in peace. Each of us can decide for ourselves in which bathroom we belong.

Please listen to transgender people’s needs and stories when they are volunteered, yet please respect people’s privacy and boundaries. Do not ask questions that you wouldn’t ask of anyone else. Do not make assumptions about other people’s gender identity or expression. Do respect and call people what they ask you to call them.

If you make a mistake about someone’s pronouns, simply make a correction, and move on. Do not justify the misstep, over-apologize, or beat yourself up.

For non-trans conference participants, please educate yourself through books, web sites, and transgenderrelated workshops. Then, please join the many allies who are working to respond appropriately to transphobic situations. Respectful allies, who learn from and with transgender people and then educate others, are important for successful transgender liberation.

Thank you for your help, and have a great summit!

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On Sexual Freedom, Consent, and Practice “The act of communities coming together to take interpersonal or intimate forms of violence more seriously can in and of itself make healing more possible.�

- Mimi Kim, Creative Interventions We believe in liberation for all queer and trans people.

We fight for the rights and dignity of immigrant and Muslim communities.

We value sexual freedom and autonomy over our own bodies.

We challenge rape culture.

We listen to survivors and honor their experiences.

We recognize that anyone can be a survivor, and anyone can enact harm and abuse.

We see ourselves as part of the intergenerational work of breaking the cycles of violence.

We have seen and experienced harm from police and prisons.

We know that solutions come from the people most impacted.

We believe in the power and resilience of our communities.

NQAPIA recognizes that sexual and domestic violence exist in all cultures and harm all communities, and is rooted in the same power structures that uphold violence against trans and queer people. As part of our commitment to queer and trans liberation, we seek to deepen our understanding of how this impacts our people and our movements. We are building our skills to support survivors and respond to harm.

As queer and trans APIs, we encounter and experience state violence through anti- immigrant and islamophobic policies and institutions that target our families. Furthermore, violence against queer and trans people is used to justify these policies and increase policing, incarceration and militarization in our communities. Community accountability directly challenges institutions that harm our communities and separate us from our loved ones. We are helping to build an alternative to systems that rely on police, prisons, and detention centers to respond to interpersonal violence-- systems that further perpetuate harm to our communities. We want to create more options for survivors in ways that build our power and resilience.

All of us have either experienced and/or been impacted by intimate forms of violence. As a community, we can examine the ways they show up in our relationships with each other, knowing that anyone can enact violence as well as be a survivor. We know that survivors of domestic and sexual violence are often further marginalized when communities ignore or minimize the harm they’ve experienced. Our histories include often invisibilized gender violence within our movements. Many survivors have paid a high cost to break their silence, some made to feel like they are no longer welcome or valued. We cannot continue to let this happen in our movements. We want to create a space that centers survivor voices and honors and validates their experiences.

This leadership summit is a gathering of many people from different backgrounds and experiences, including youth and elders, trans and gender nonconforming people, and sick and disabled people. We want everyone to feel safe in exploring their sexuality, with the understanding that the power dynamics

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that exist within our organizations and relationships will also be present. We encourage sexual freedom that is rooted in respect, choice, and honoring the humanity of everyone involved. We support young people in being their whole selves and experiencing freedom in their bodies and self- determination in their choices. We value clear and enthusiastic consent when it comes to sex, and we want to be able to practice that in all our interactions.

Growing Home is building a culture of care and accountability in our relationships with each other. There are many ways to do this, including recognizing when harm is happening around you and taking steps to intervene. It also recognizing our own harmful behaviors, and checking in with our friends about how we choose to engage in practicing our sexual freedom and autonomy. We want people in this conference to feel safe and seen. Together, we will grow our skills and support each other in deepening our understanding of sexual freedom.

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Building a Culture of Care and Consent We are building a culture of care and consent in NQAPIA spaces by encouraging participants to practice the following: -

Check in with yourself about what you need to fully participate, including - access needs i.e. food, rest, bathrooms, translation, materials in different formats, scent free space (You can also contact the Summit Coordinator, Vinnu at 703-625-6728) - hugs and casual touch - activities that are a growing edge - sobriety (for yourself or others) - taking space vs. making space for others - romantic/sexual interactions

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Practice talking to friends and colleagues about the things listed above, and asking for the support you need.

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Ask a friend or colleague to be your “accountability buddy” for the summit. You can check in with them at the beginning about how you want to be supported.

Possible scenarios: “I am looking for folks to flirt with, and possibly hook up with at the conference. I haven’t always been good at giving and getting clear consent, especially when I am drinking. Can I keep you updated about possible hookups and can we check in before and after?”

“I love giving hugs and being affectionate with people, but I want to practice asking beforehand.

Can you let me know how I’m doing throughout the conference?”

If you experience or encounter harm, or have a safety concern, please contact any of the following: - Krittika, APIDVRP - Khudai, Staff- (804-300-9093) - Board Member- 786-303-9731 If an incident of *interpersonal harm is reported, NQAPIA will follow the following protocol: *sexual harassment, assault or abuse, domestic or dating violence, racist or transphobic actions, etc.

Note: Safety team and staff will be made aware of any report and will respond as a team, unless otherwise requested.

1. A member of the safety team will talk to the person who reported the incident and gather more information. If possible, they will talk to the person who experienced the harm that occurred.

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NQAPIA Staff Glenn D. Magpantay, Esq., Executive Director Khudai Tanveer, Membership Organizer Amanda Saich, Development Assistant Conor Huynh, Administrative Assistant Patrick Lee, Grant Writer Linda Le, Bookkeeper Janani Balasubramanian, Social Media Consultant Roberta Sklar, Media Consultant

glenn_magpantay@nqapia.org khudai@nqapia.org amanda@nqapia.org conor@nqapia.org patrick@nqapia.org

Contact NQAPIA Post Office Box 1277 Old Chelsea Station New York, NY 10113 For Express Mail or Personal Delivery, use: NQAPIA; 217 West 18th Street, Box 1277; New York, NY 10011-9998 Website: www.nqapia.org Email: info@nqapia@org Facebook: www.facebook.com/nqapia Twitter: @nqapia; #nqapia Youtube: youtube.com/user/nqapia LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/National-Queer-Asian-Pacific-Islander-4673352 NQAPIA Board of Directors

Stan Fong, Atlanta, GA Shilpa Joshi, Portland, OR Andrew Chou, New York, NY Navid Ladha, Austin, TX Julia Rhee, San Francisco, CA Kham Moua, Washington, DC Moof Mayeda, Portland, OR Cathy Chu, Los Angeles, CA Kevin Lam, Boston, MA Milap Patel, New York, NY Nick Kor, Minneapolis, MN Kim Nguyen, Chicago, IL Chris Pinto, Washington, DC Founded in 2005, NQAPIA is a tax-exempt 501(c)3 nonprofit charitable organization. EIN Number 27-2114866

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NQAPIA Corporate Fundraising Policy Updated May 2019 NQAPIA will seek funding to support its activities and programs from various corporations. Together we can seek positive private-public partnerships that can advance the social welfare of LGBT Asian, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islanders. However, some corporations have not been supportive, and some have even been anti-agents to social change.

STANDARD FOR FUNDRAISING In order to assure that NQAPIA’s corporate fundraising remains aligned with our values, principles, and programmatic priorities, NQAPIA’s executive director will abide by the following standards for evaluating corporate donors. NQAPIA will not seek funding from any corporation that: 1) Is the target of an active boycott by an NQAPIA partner or member organization; 2) Involved in activities opposed to the outcomes identified by NQAPIA programmatic priorities; or 3) Engages in events or activities that actively harm LGBTQ equality, racial justice, or immigrant rights.

NQAPIA will also be cognizant of the impact that various corporations have on the health and wellness of LGBTQ communities, taking care to consider the ethics involved in accepting support from companies involved with tobacco and other related products.

This standard does not apply to corporate matching funds for employee gifts. Such corporations are not publically recognized or promoted as a donor to NQAPIA. The employee is recognized as an individual donor.

CORPORATE FUNDRAISING AUTHORITY OF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The NQAPIA executive director has the authority to pursue funding or to direct relevant staff to pursue funding from any corporate funder that does not conflict with the standard outlined in the previous section without the need for prior approval by the NQAPIA board or any of its relevant committees.

OVERSIGHT OF CORPORATE FUNDRAISING POLICY Prior to each full board meeting, the NQAPIA executive director or relevant staff overseeing corporate fundraising will submit a list of corporations whom they are actively pursuing funding to the NQAPIA Fundraising Committee for review by the Committee. In their meeting, if they find further review necessary, the Committee will submit a “review of corporate fundraising opportunities” agenda item to the Executive Committee for discussion by the full board.

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The NQAPIA Executive Committee can review this policy at any time and make changes on behalf of the NQAPIA Board. The Executive Committee may also request that the Fundraising Committee update the policy as necessary on their behalf. Additionally, any NQAPIA staff may submit proposed changes to this policy to a member of the Executive Committee.

INCLUSION OF ADDITIONAL CORPORATIONS ON CORPORATE BAN LIST Notwithstanding the standard outlined in the previous sections, any member of the board or staff may propose the inclusion of any corporation for inclusion on NQAPIA Corporate Ban List (also referred to as the List). In such an event, the full board will vote on including the proposed corporation for inclusion on the List. When the full board is not in session, the Executive Committee will vote on such a proposal. Additionally, any NQAPIA member may submit a request to include a corporation on the List to the NQAPIA Fundraising Committee for review.

The Fundraising Committee will decide whether or not such a request shall move to the Executive Committee or Full Board for a vote.

REMOVING CORPORATIONS FROM THE NQAPIA CORPORATE BAN LIST Notwithstanding the standard outlined in the previous sections, any member of the board, member organization, or staff may propose the removal of any corporation from the NQAPIA Corporate Ban List. In such an event, the individual will submit a proposal to the NQAPIA Fundraising Committee for approval. The Committee will review and recommend a decision on the proposal for removal for authorization by the full board or the Executive Committee when the board is not session.

NQAPIA CORPORATE BAN LIST Amazon Walmart Wells Fargo

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T RAINING FOR C HANGE HANDOUT WWW.TRAI NINGFORCHAN GE.ORG

Team Types North (Warrior) ! Assertive, active, decisive ! Likes to be in control of relationship and steer course of events ! Quick to act, expresses sense of urgency for others to act now ! Enjoys challenge of difficult situations and people ! Can get defensive quickly, argue, try to out-expert you ! Can lose patience, pushes for decision before it's time ! May get autocratic, want things their way, ride roughshod over people

West (Analyst)

East (Visionary)

! Weighs all sides of issues ! Uses data analysis and logic ! Seen as practical and thorough in task situations ! Introspective, self-analytical ! Can become stubborn and entrenched in position ! Can be indecisive, collect unnecessary data, mired in details ! May appear cold, withdrawn

! Sees the big picture ! Very idea-oriented, focus on future ! Insight into mission and purpose ! Likes to experiment, explore ! Can lose focus on tasks and not follow through ! May become easily overwhelmed, lose track of time ! Tends to be highly enthusiastic early on, then burn out

South (Nurturer) ! Allows others to feel important in determining direction of what's happening ! Value-driven regarding all aspects of personal/professional life ! Uses relationships to accomplish tasks ! Innocence and trust in others based on vulnerability and openness ! Supportive, nurturing, feeling-based ! Has trouble saying "no" to requests ! Internalizes difficulty and assumes blame ! Prone to disappointment when relationship is seen as secondary to task ! Difficulty confronting, dealing with anger Training for Change • www.TrainingForChange.org

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Read more about Team Types in different cultures in: Angeles Arrien's The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Path of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer, and Visionary (Harper Collins).

Team Types and Strategy When making a cake, it's important to have all the key ingredients! Same is true when creating strategy for our organizations or movements. But, what are the key ingredients for strategy?

The Team Types offers one way of looking at different roles in strategy making and implementation. Each team type has a unique gift to offer in the project of developing strategy.

Certain elements of strategy are sometimes preferred by different organizational cultures. For example, in some organizations there is a belief that the East is seen as the role that creates strategy. But that is a real short-coming. All team types offer important ingredients for strategy.

EAST: PROVIDING INTUITION One process, intuiting, is creating ideas out of patterns and possibilities – shaping the different goals, tactics, symbols, timing, SWOT analyses, etc into a coherent partially formed strategy. East people often take a lot of data and emerge with some intuitive element: a well-framed campaign goal, a useable tactic, or even a full campaign plan.

Groups often perceive the East’s style as a total emergence from nowhere – often sudden. For some groups they assume the East people will be the first step coming up with ideas for action.

SOUTH: INTERPRETING Bright ideas need to be understood. Even where ideas are swimming in an organization, they have to be articulated, understood, and seen how they relate to the group. And in steps the South.

Here the South’s warm relational energy helps to move it from the individual idea to the group, explaining the idea to the whole group in a way it can be understood.

NORTH: INTEGRATING Talking only goes so far. And the North energy is the “let’s go implement this” energy. While North people can often jump too quickly, their increasing frustration at a long dialogue can often be expressed in a way to help propel the group forward. In organizations, this process may be led by an individual, subgroup or even many of its members. Either way, that movement to action is an expression led by the energy of the North.

WEST: INSTITUTIONALIZING People in the West role often remind the group of a key principle: you know you have a strategy, when you know what you are not going to do. West offers the rigor to be clear we are doing this strategy and therefore this action and not that action. They assure that alignment with the strategy occurs, including putting in place defined tasks, organizational mechanisms, etc.

Reflect on your group. What roles are missing? What roles may be overwhelming others? How can you cultivate better relationship among those roles? What roles need to be supported?

Written by Daniel Hunter, Training for Change The 4I framework comes from Crossan MM, Lane HW, White RE. 1999. An organizational learning framework: from intuition to institution. Academy of Management.

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Four Personality Tendencies in Team-Building

Invite people to stand and give any brief context to the tool (frame the experience: is it exploring how you work as a team? Strategy? Personal reflection?). Explain that you will be describing four different roles. As you are describing them, people may reflect on if that applies for them.

DESCRIBE THE ROLES It is best if you can avoid reading it as a list but describe it in your own words. Explain the four roles in a number of different ways. For example, possible language might be: Ø East • People in this role generate lots of ideas, seeing the big picture. They look at a situation and wonder what else might happen. They are rarely at a loss for a new idea. That might result in them being quickly sidetracked with the new possibilities, maybe becoming overwhelmed or resulting in losing time. They like future thought and experimenting. Ø South • Okay, people from the South are relationship people. While the East people see ideas, the South people see relationships – they are value-driven, using the relationships around them to accomplish tasks. They are supportive, feeling-based, and tend to see the health of the group around them as primary. Because they are so feeling-based, they may have trouble saying no to requests and may internalize blame or accept responsibility even if they are not responsible. Again, the relationship people. Ø West • Where East is idea-generation, and South relationship, West is into data and information. In a group, West people want to see all the information before making a decision, weighing all the sides of an issue. They use data and logic and are often seen as practical and thorough in tasks. Because of their emphasis, they can be seen as entrenched and even stubborn, sometimes being indecisive because they get so mired into the details. Ø North • And finally North, sometimes called the warrior. They like to act, even enjoying rising to challenges. They are assertive, active and tend towards “shoot first, aim second.” They carry a sense of urgency and can ride roughshod over people. This means they can lose patience with others and may try to be in control – or moving ahead without the support of the group.

As you describe each position, physically signal where that position is in the room. You want people moving to that place in the room in a second. Avoid giving people the handout at this stage. If you do, people will often nit-pick: “This line applies to me. This line does not.” You want people to get the general feel of each team type – not precision.

GET PEOPLE MOVING Answer any questions, but quickly get people moving into their four groups. Give them the first task to talk about what it’s like in that position. This lets them settle into understanding that group. Some individuals may show some resistance, “But I’m all those things.” Encourage them to find a spot that best fits them, even listening into others conversations if they need.

Sometimes people will create Southeast or Northwest positions. That is fine. Stand with any 1

people who are alone so they can have a dialogue (or encourage them to converse with a nearby group, like encourage the Southeast to chat with the South group but share in the large group from their own perspective).

LARGE GROUP DIALOGUE Give a question for the small group to answer. Then facilitate a dialogue with the large group.

Give each group a chance to speak. Repeat this a couple of times with questions appropriate. For example: Ø What do you like about your role? Ø What annoys you about the other roles? Ø What request might you make to the other roles to work more effectively with them?

During this conversation, notice the styles surfacing even in how people talk. When the North people go first, make note of that out-loud. Or when the South ask permission from the other groups to go next, acknowledge it. Or when the West make a list... Or when the East ask, “Can we just add one more thing?”... Each time this is a chance to help people internalize the concept and see the dynamics at play.

Stay light and encourage humor, especially as groups share what annoys them about the other groups. People laughing is one way to internalize a concept.

APPLICATION After the sharing, people need a chance to think about how they might use this perspective. (If people got it, often the remainder of the group meeting or workshop will include references and jokes about the roles. Encourage it!)

You may want to share stories. For example, some examples: Ø In a national board meeting a group did this. Out of a group of thirty, about five were South and two North. The remainder were all East. The sole people in the West were the two staff.

The facilitator gave extra attention to expression from the West, including the sense of isolation and frustration with keeping the East people in check. After much conversation, the group decided to reconsider its composition it include more West roles. Ø A national coalition asked for a nonviolent direct action trainer to work with them. When they did this tool, there were no North! “Why?” asked the trainer. Slowly, members talked about how the more rowdy, agitative members had been subtly and occasionally overtly encouraged to leave. “They always wanted to be confrontive,” said a coalition leader. “Well,” announced the trainer, “without North energy you won’t be able to sustain a direct action campaign. Rather than continuing this training, we are going to focus on whether you want to reach out to the past groups or how to bring in other groups that bring that energy. Because you can’t win a direct action campaign without North energy.”

Finally, give them a chance to share in small groups (or, if the group is a working group you might want they keep them in the large-group). If the group is relatively balanced they might even pair up with a role different from them and share how they could work better together.

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Team Types & Common Tensions If having all four leadership styles or roles is just as necessary to campaign strategy as having the right ingredients in a cake, think of tensions between the roles as the chemical reactions that happen as the cake batter starts to rise. Evidence of tension means the different roles are showing up – no one is hiding or holding back. And it can be good to know what kinds of tension you’re likely to run into, although the exact tensions flows are different depending on the group.

Warrior (North)

Analyst (West)

Visionary (East) Nurturer (South)

VISIONARIES ANALYSTS Visionaries easily generate ideas and proposals – even while the group is in the middle of implementing the last plan. Analysts often want to “see the numbers”, to know how the Visionary’s plan will work and to make certain it will pay off a month or two years down the road.

Likewise, Analysts might want the group to lead from its history. “Looking backward is how we make the road forward,” is one of their mottos. Learning from the past (and honoring the past, sometimes to the point of sacrificing focus on the present) is paramount, as is the collection and use of data. Visionaries, of course, can come up with their own ideas for next steps without sifting through the group’s oral history. And Warriors want something to be done, now; they’re OK moving forward without more data. Nurturers, on the other hand, might be sympathetic to the Analysts’ proposal to conduct a survey and a focus group before the planning meeting -- the Nurturers want to make sure whatever the group decides, that it doesn’t alienate the people they want to be in relationship with.

WARRIORS NURTURERS Warriors tend towards “act first, ask questions (and pick up the pieces) later.” Because of the way we are socialized in US society – to respect more authoritarian, quick-acting leadership – the Warrior style is more likely to be recognized and respected for its leadership qualities. Because of this, they often develop an attitude of “why isn’t anyone else doing anything?”, unable to appreciate the other three leadership styles. Visionaries are the next most likely to be recognized, and are often allied with Warriors, who appreciate being offered a concrete direction to move towards. Analysts and Nurturers take a more introspective approach to organizational leadership, and as such are often experienced by Warriors as “slowing us down”.

Although Nurturers are often in conflict with Warriors, they tend to avoid direct confrontation, as they often view conflict and tension as undermining the strength of individual relationships.

(Whereas Warriors are pro-conflict, and are often comfortable with some level of tension.)

Nurturers place the highest value on moving forward together, as a unit, ideally with the consensus of the entire group, whereas Warriors are often more concerned with simply moving forward, period. So Nurturers can see the Warriors as focusing too much on the end goal and not enough on the wellbeing of the whole team; Nurturers might say to the Warriors, “the journey is just as important as the destination”.

Written by Andrew Willis Garcés, Training for Change Training for Change • www.TrainingForChange.org

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Read more about Team Types in different cultures in: Angeles Arrien's The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Path of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer, and Visionary (Harper Collins).

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Introductions ! Presenters: ! Glenn, NQAPIA ! Jasmine, APIENC ! Sunjay, i2i Chicago ! All: ! Name ! Organization ! City/State ! Preferred pronoun ! 1 item to get out of workshop (i.e., why are you here?)

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Convenings & Trainings NQAPIA

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Promote Visibility

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About Asian Americans, South Asians, Southeast Asians, Pacific Islanders ! 18 million ! fastest growing minority group ! By 2060, one out of ten Americans will be of Asian descent. ! Asians largest set of new immigrants to US (legal and undocumented).

! 66% foreign-born ! 80% speak a language other than English in their homes ! 1 million undocumented.

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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander Organizations

NQAPIA MEMBER GROUPS PACIFIC NORTHWEST

NATIONAL PARTNERS

API Pride of Portland, OR

MIDWEST

Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD)

Project Q of API Chaya, Seattle, WA

Invisible to Invincible: Asian Pacific Islander Pride of Chicago (i2i), IL

Desi lgbtQ Helpline (DeQH)

Pride Asia, Seattle, WA

Trikone-Chicago, IL

Trikone-Northwest, Seattle, WA

Freedom Inc., Madison, WI

UTOPIA - Seattle, WA

NEW ENGLAND

Massachusetts Area South Asian Lambda Association (MASALA), Boston, MA Queer Asian Pacific-Islander Alliance (QAPA), Boston, MA Southeast Asian Queers United for Empowerment & Leadership (seaQuel), Providence, RI

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

API Queer Sacramento Coalition (APIQSC)

GREATER NEW YORK CITY

API Equality-Northern California, San Francisco

Asian Pride Project, NY

AREA

Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women and Transgender Community (APIQWTC), Bay Area

Dari Project, NY

Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA), San Francisco

SALGA-NYC

Gay Asian & Pacific Islander Men of New York (GAPIMNY) Q-WAVE, NY PFLAG NYC Chapter – API Project

GAPA Foundation, San Francisco, CA

Desi Rainbow Parents, NJ

Network on Religion and Justice (NRJ)

Korean American Rainbow Parents (KARP)

Trikone, San Francisco

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UTOPIA - San Francisco

Coalition of Houston Asian Americans (CHAA) Trikone-Atlanta, GA Khush Texas, Austin, TX

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

API Equality-Los Angeles

API PFLAG San Gabriel Valley

Pride Marianas, Saipan

Korean American Rainbow Parents (KARP)

Guam Alternative Lifestyle Association (GALA)

Satrang, Los Angeles UTOPIA - San Diego Viet Rainbow Orange County NQAPIA National Queer (VROC), Garden Grove

VAYLA-New Orleans, LA

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Asian Pacific Islander Alliance

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Asian Pacific Islander Queers United for Action (AQUA), Washington, DC Asian Pacific Islander Queer Society (APIQS), Washington, DC hotpot!, Philadelphia, PA Khush-DC, Washington, DC

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Activities: Social To connect with people of common heritage and experiences

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Activities: Support ! Peer support ! coming out of the closet ! group meetings for women, transgender, youth ! Referrals to other social service agencies ! health/counseling/AIDS/HIV services ! immigration assistance ! general legal advice ! 3 groups for young people

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Activities: Education ! Workshops, guest speakers, or discussion groups ! Open community forums ! Speakers bureaus ! Articles in local Asian newsletters and newspapers

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Activities: Multilingual Outreach & Visibility Responding to dominant images of white gay images women, transgender, and South Asians were especially absent

! Events

! LGBTQ Pride events, Dyke Marches, Lunar New Year ! Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in May ! Nation independence days

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! 43% of Asian Americans over 18 are limited English proficient ! 81% speak a language other than English in their homes. ! Yet, LGBTQ resources all in English.

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Activities: Political Advocacy & Activism ! Letters to the editor in mainstream press, LGBTQ community press, Asian ethnic/language press

! Rallies, protests, and lobby days ! Political pieces in their newsletters, websites, and listservs ! Partisan work - endorsed candidates for office in SF & DC

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Reach and Infrastructure ! Email: 19,539 ! Facebook: 27,611 ! Twitter: 4,389 ! Members: 3,936 ! Leaders: 270 ! Budget Sizes: ! Less $500 ! $500 - $1,000 ! $1,000 - $5,000 ! $5,000 - $10,000 ! $10,000-$15,000 ! $20,000-$25,000 ! Over $25,000 NQAPIA

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Finances Budgets

! 27% annual budgets under $1,000 ! 50% between $1,000 and $10,000 ! 23% over $10,000, half of which were over $50,000.

Primary Sources of Funding

! 45% fundraising events ! 25% individual donations ! 20% membership fees.

Foundation Support

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The Rise of the Chinese-American Right

By RONG XIAOQING

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San Francisco mayoral candidate Ellen Lee Zhou at her fundraising party in April. (Rong Xiaoqing)

New generations of Chinese immigrants hate affirmative action — and some are beginning to love Trump.

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n June 13, during a nasty storm, a group of Chinese New Yorkers gathered in front of the gates of Gracie Mansion, the New York mayor’s residence on the Upper East Side, to protest. Inside, Mayor Bill de Blasio was meeting with two dozen or so representatives of the Asian-American community to

discuss his controversial plan to reform the meritocratic admissions process for the city’s specialized high schools — the first such meeting since he announced the plan out of the blue a year ago. The protesters, crowded under umbrellas or clad in

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ponchos, blamed the mayor for taking so long to hold the meeting and for handpicking most invitees from government-funded entities, thereby shutting out key opponents of his plan.

The rain was pouring and the wind howling, but when a soft-spoken, skinny man made a speech in front of the crowd, the protesters paid attention. “Today there are no politicians or leaders. We are all ordinary parents,” he told them, standing in the rain without any protection. “But we should believe in our power. As long as we fight together, we are able to protect the future of our children.”

His name is Donghui Zang, a rising community leader who was little-known in the Chinese community until a year ago. Zang, the father of two teenage boys, first came out on the streets to protest on June 5, 2018, two days after the mayor announced his plan to eliminate the Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT) to diversify the intake of the city’s top high schools, where a majority of students are Asian and very few are Black or Hispanic.

At the time, Zang wasn’t sure what he could do as an individual to change the mayor’s mind. Since he came to the U.S. to study in 1995, he had never participated in civic activities. “I didn’t even know who Cuomo was,” Zang told me, referring to the New York governor, Andrew Cuomo. With a Ph.D. from Rice University, a master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon, and a job with a Wall Street firm, his life had little overlap with traditional Chinese immigrant communities.

But since the SHSAT protest, Zang has helped form New York Residents Alliance, a grassroots organization that is able to reach as many as 2,000 Chinese New Yorkers via WeChat, the social media platform popular among Chinese people around the world. Zang mobilized his followers to protest against various issues they deemed contrary to the interests of Chinese residents, such as the city’s plans to build jails and homeless shelters in Chinese neighborhoods and the opening of medical marijuana dispensaries in the center of residential neighborhoods. His organization has endorsed candidates in several elections, mostly Republicans or conservative Democrats.

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Many of Zang’s followers are like him — having come to the U.S. from China in the past 30 years or so for postgraduate education. Like Zang, many have school-age children but no previous experience in activism. Many of them became new voters during the past year, including Zang, who was naturalized and registered as a voter in late August 2018. Many of them are not affiliated with any party. But their views, based on a firm belief in competition, individual accomplishment, and meritocracy, are distinctly conservative.

They are only part of the rising force of conservatism among new Chinese immigrants in the U.S., aroused by nationwide issues such as the racially conscious admissions policy of Ivy League colleges and the legalization of marijuana for recreational use. Their emergence on the political horizon may herald a climate change in a community that has been considered a solid base for the Democrats for two decades.

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Lucy Tan and other Chinese Trump supporters participating in a rally in midtown Manhattan in May against Congresswomen Ilhan Omar. (Rong Xiaoqing)

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sians in America, carrying the lingering wounds from historic injustices — such as the Chinese Exclusion Act that barred Chinese immigration to the U.S. from 1882 to the middle of the 20th century — may sound like natural allies of the Democrats.

Indeed, since 2000, Asians have overwhelmingly voted for Democratic candidates in presidential elections. But, if you look beyond the last twenty years, that loyalty fades. In 1992, the first time Asian votes were counted as an independent category, and again in 1996, more Asians voted for the Republican candidates than for the Democratic candidate Bill Clinton.

In a 2016 article in The American Prospect, Karthick Ramakrishnan, director of the National Asian American Survey (NAAS), attributed the shift to the different approaches of the two parties toward Asians and immigrants. One of his main concerns was the lack of civic participation of Asians. “Asian American leaders repeatedly told me that the members of their community were primarily interested in ensuring their economic advancement and had neither the time nor the motivation to participate in civic life,” he wrote.

With this backdrop in place, the emergence of Chinese Trump supporters in 2016 caught many people off guard. David Wang, an independent investor in Los Angeles, founded Chinese Americans for Trump (CAFT) on WeChat during the last election season. He told me it evolved from a three-member chat group that he formed in the summer of 2015 to an 8,000-member network, spread across all states but Hawaii and Alaska one year later.

CAFT members were visible in campaign rallies, they posted and reposted proTrump articles on WeChat, and they showed off their support for him with flamboyant displays. In October 2016, Chinese Trump supporters across the country donated money to put on pro-Trump air shows. Small planes pulled

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banners bearing the words “Chinese Americans for Trump” then hovered for hours, creating a spectacle that even media in mainland China vied to cover.

But, this kind of zeal did not appear out of thin air — the Chinese community had been becoming more vocal for a few years.

Some say a key moment came in 2013 when comedian Jimmy Kimmel aired a segment on his tongue-in-cheek late night show on ABC, in which he seemed amused by a six-year-old boy’s proposal to solve the problem of America’s skyrocketing national debt owed to China. “Kill everyone in China,” the boy said.

The segment prompted tens of thousands of Chinese-Americans to protest in more than 20 American cities, the largest such national protest of Chinese-Americans in anyone’s memory. Kimmel apologized.

Since then, such protests have almost become routine in a community that used to be known for its silence. They fought against the indictment of Peter Liang, a Chinese-American cop in New York, who accidentally shot dead an unarmed black man while patrolling a NYC housing estate. Liang’s indictment seemed unjust given that white police officers who had killed in far more cold-blooded ways had gotten off charges. The grassroots protesters also fought against bills in several states aiming to collect data about Asian subgroups. They worried that such a bill would direct government funding to less-established Asian groups. Chinese parents became vocal as well, protesting the legalization of marijuana as they sought to protect their children from being introduced to drugs.

But the issue that mobilizes almost every single person in the Chinese community is education. From the protests against the California bill, SCA-5, which would restore race as a factor for college-admission decisions in the state, to the ongoing lawsuit against Harvard University for its “racially conscious” admissions policy, to Zang’s dissent against New York City’s attempt at specialized-high-school reform, ChineseAmericans are vehemently against affirmative action in education.

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degrees, finding jobs, and applying for green cards, they only recently found the confidence and security to ponder social issues. To this subgroup of the ChineseAmerican community, affirmative action in education is a direct attack on their interests and the interests of their children.

But the way they seek fairness and justice differs sharply from that of the previous generations of Chinese-Americans, who tended to stand shoulder by shoulder with other minorities. Liz Ouyang, a veteran civil-rights lawyer and activist, said: “I see their [the new Chinese immigrants’] advocacy as being more narrowly focused.

Their anger is dealing with whether or not their child would get in if they study for this test, rather than looking at whether or not this test is an accurate measure of their ability or whether or not this test discriminates against other minorities.”

The impact of this new wave of Chinese immigrants on American politics is still unfolding, but it has the potential to wield significant influence. The number of Asian voters has more than doubled from 2 million in 2001 to 5 million in 2016. It now constitutes some 3.7 percent of the total voter population, and is expected to climb. Further, according to the Yearbook of Immigration Statistics of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), China has been the second largest source country for immigrants granted green cards since 2007, topped only by Mexico. The trend shows no sign of slowing down in the foreseeable future, even with the trade war between China and the U.S. Meanwhile, between 2012 and 2016, Chinese support for affirmative action in education collapsed to just 41 percent from 78 percent, according to AAPI DATA, a partner organization of the NAAS. This has sparked some anticipation from the right. In February, a forum was convened at the Harvard Club to discuss New York’s plan for specialized-highschool reform. John Yoo, former deputy assistant attorney general during the George W. Bush administration, told the audience: “If you look at Asians, they are the most highly educated, the biggest small business owners, the most religious, the most entrepreneurial. . . . Why are they voting Democrat? . . . I hope this is a political awakening for Asian Americans.”

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Surveys of the midterm congressional elections in 2018 showed that the majority of Asian votes still went to the Democrats. The new conservative Asian voters are still some way from dominating the Asian vote. But if Chinese Trump supporters are an indicator, conservatism is still rising.

David Wang, the founder of CAFT, said the number of members in the network dropped to 5,000 or so after the presidential election when people shifted their focus to other matters. But now it has risen close to 8,000, and his goal is to have 20,000 people in the network for the 2020 election. The group has growing chapters in cities such as Atlanta and Phoenix and continues to expand.

In the spring, I was invited to a Chinese Trump supporters’ party. It was organized by a woman named Lucy Tan, a mother with two master’s degrees and three schoolaged children, at a karaoke bar in the heavily Chinese neighborhood of Flushing in Queens, New York. A few dozen Chinese people showed up. Some had participated in pro-Trump activities in 2016, but quite a few were newcomers who said that their conservative stance made them lonely in a progressive city, until they found this group on WeChat.

In the dim glow of fluorescent light, over snacks like roasted sunflower seeds and boiled green soybeans, they poured their hearts out for President Trump using a karaoke microphone.

“I had never loved any politicians. But this old man, I love him to death,” exclaimed Jason Gu, who said he worked in the real estate industry. Gu then lamented about his perception of America’s deterioration since he came to this country in 1991 when he was 37 — his sense that there is a swelling welfare system that encourages laziness and punishes hard-working people.

He picked up a peanut from a plate. “Think about this, when we were kids in China, we could only afford to serve peanuts during the Lunar New Year. Why were we so poor?” asked Gu rhetorically. “I came to the U.S. because I saw the flaws of socialism. But now America is going on the old road of China.”

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The very thought of socialism created its own toxic atmosphere. Almost everyone came up with a horror story about how it ruined lives in their home country, and they pledged never to let the U.S. become another Venezuela.

When I brought up the Chinese Exclusion Act, they vied to tell me that it came from the failed Fifteen Passenger Bill in 1879, introduced by a Democratic congressman, and that it was created partly because Chinese laborers were breaking the strikes called by mainstream unions. “American culture is white men’s culture. We came to this country because we like this culture,” Tan told me.

That day, they came up with a strategic plan for helping Trump win in 2020, including a goal for each participant to persuade five people around them to vote for Trump, and to support the activities led by other Chinese groups whom Tan called “allied troops,” including the fight against specialized-high-school reform.

Indeed, the collaboration has already been happening. Chinese Trump supporters attended many of the recent protests led by Chinese-Americans, and, on some occasions, they flashed their banners of “Chinese for Trump” or “Make America Great Again.” This display often caused controversy when other protesters worried that the banners would drive away their Democratic supporters. For example, during a rally before a forum held by New York State Senator John Liu to discuss the specialized high school reform in April, this reporter witnessed a MAGA banner going abreast with a banner calling to “Keep politics out of education.” Despite the visible clash between the CAFTers and the local activists, the dispute only involved tactics. Few people, at least in the activist discussion groups on WeChat, criticized Trump supporters for their doctrines or the president himself.

Some of these grassroots activists quickly became torch holders of Trumpian doctrines, such as Ellen Lee Zhou, a mayoral candidate in San Francisco. A cityemployed social worker who came to the U.S. in 1986 when she was 17 from Taishan, China, Zhou first became active in 2017 when Chinese San Franciscans protested against the proliferation of marijuana shops in the city after it was legalized by a state referendum.

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Last year, encouraged by her anti-marijuana-legalization friends, Zhou ran for mayor in a special election in San Francisco — as an independent. She ended up the fifth among the nine candidates, topped by four experienced politicians. This year, the mayoral race is open again, and Zhou is back. The difference is that she is now a Republican and an impassioned Trump supporter.

At a fundraising Zhou hosted in early April at Paramount, a Chinese restaurant in Richmond Hill, supporters spoke on the stage one after another. Two read a poem they wrote for her entitled “Make San Francisco Great Again.” A white man praised traditional Chinese values and identified them as the solution for the problems in California.

“The rest of California — the Hindus and all the other minorities — will see the Chinese people leading the way of moral values and economic resuscitation. And we will take the country back, and President Trump is depending on you,” he told the audience.

Talk of “cultural values” may confuse those unfamiliar with the teachings of Confucius — from which both the previous generation of left-leaning Chinese activists and their current conservative counterparts borrowed. But China’s rapid development in the past 40 years can easily explain the juxtaposition: While the values may be the same, their implications have changed dramatically.

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Donghui Zang speaking at a rally to protect the Specialized High School Admissions Test. (Rong Xiaoqing)

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onsider the case of Donghui Zang, the New York protest leader, who was born in a small village of Gaocheng, Hebei, in 1969. Chairman Mao Tsetung would die seven years later. When Zang was nine years old, new Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping launched the “Open Door Policy,” a massive

economic reform program that would lead China to affluence by allowing open markets and encouraging competition.

Zang still remembers the poverty left by Mao’s era. When he was a child, the families in his village were too poor to buy shoes for their children. He had to wear shoes handmade by his mother with torn cloth, which, during rain or snow, would soak through. But all parents tried their best to encourage their children to study.

There was no electricity in the village until he entered middle school, so in the evenings, children often climbed up to their roofs so they could read in the last twilight. Zang’s father, an elementary-school teacher, always spent his day off in students’ homes tutoring them for free.

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After elementary school, Zang entered the top middle school with the highest score among the tens of thousands of children in the county. From there, he went to a top high school, and then, in 1987, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, one of the top universities in China, after competing with 2.28 million students in the excruciating college entrance exams when the average nationwide admission rate to a university was 27.2 percent.

Zang said the quality of the grade schools in his hometown has declined, but he believes that the solution is to raise the pay for rural teachers rather than lowering the cut scores of college admission for rural children. “You should try to help rural children to reach a higher level, not punish city children for getting ahead,” said Zang. In China as in the U.S., Zang believes that tests are the only fair way to minimize subjective bias and backdoor manipulation in school admissions.

In late spring 1989, when Zang was a college sophomore, the Tiananmen students’ democracy movement erupted. On May 13 of that year, Zang, limping because he injured his leg two days earlier in a basketball game, marched with thousands of students for miles. “I fervently longed for democracy and freedom then, and couldn’t tolerate the fact that other countries could have more than one party and that people could vote and we couldn’t,” he said.

When the movement was destroyed by Beijing in a bloody crackdown, Zang cried.

That was the first time he had participated in any political activity. Six years later he left China to study for his Ph.D. in the U.S. He had stayed away from politics, until now.

His experience is not just his own but also that of his generation. “We Chinese believe in equal opportunities. They (American liberals) pursue equal outcomes.

That is like in Mao’s era, you received the same pay whether you worked hard or not,” Yukong Zhao, the founder of the Asian American Coalition for Education (AACE), told me. The AACE filed an amicus brief signed by 269 Asian community organizations to support the plaintiff in the Harvard lawsuit in January.

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party. But, he told me his views about the Republican Party have improved a lot because of Trump’s actions on education, including Trump’s reversal of the Obamaera guideline that encouraged colleges to consider race in admissions. “I support the new administration because of its support for the Asians’ education-rights movement,” Zhao said.

To Wan Yanhai, a renowned activist in China who was barred from going back after he came to the U.S. in 2010, the political trend among Chinese people in the U.S. is both understandable and confusing.

“These are mainly people who witnessed or participated in the Tiananmen movement in 1989. They believe in democracy and have basic rights awareness. But they had no opportunities to learn the process of democracy or accumulate experience in social activism,” Wan, who himself was on Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, told me. “They are easy to be instigated.”

But Wan, a registered Democrat, admitted that although the Democrats showed great sympathy for his work in China, he realized when he came to the U.S. that American liberalism is not as perfect as he imagined. Aizhixing Institute of Health Education, a nonprofit organization he led in China, helped all sorts of underserved people from Uighurs and AIDS patients to drug users and released prisoners. “But we only advocate for some very basic services for them, and we never asked for more than that,” said Wan. Democrats, too, are ratcheting up their interactions with the Chinese community.

“One reason why I want to get involved with the DNC is that I felt in the 2016 election, in some cases, Republicans paid more attention to the Chinese community than Democrats did. I want to help (the DNC) communicate better,” said Grace Meng, a New York Congresswoman who was elected the Deputy Chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017.

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to take care of themselves,” said Haipei Shue, president of the Washington D.C.based United Chinese Americans. “The values of liberalism are indeed what immigrants from China lack and badly need to espouse.” One Chinese-American scholar who called for Asian-American activists to embrace arrivals from China dealt with backlash from new immigrants who mistook it as portraying U.S.-born Asians as superior to the newcomers.

In any event, the New York protests are perhaps the epicenter of the new generation of Chinese activism. In April, Zang and eight other parents from the Residents Alliance went to meet John Liu, the state senator who chairs the New York City Education Committee, which plays a key role in approving or disapproving the mayor’s reform plan. During Liu’s election last year, the parents supported his opponent: Liu had published an op-ed article in the Huffington Post years ago proposing holistic admission of specialized high schools rather than the current test-based standard. But during and after the election, Liu has continued to emphasize his opposition to the mayor’s plan. He has even called it “racist” for deliberately avoiding Asians’ input. The parents said they felt they can work together with him.

The night before meeting Liu, they had gathered together to rehearse what each of them would say during the meeting, staying awake until 2 a.m. — as they normally did over the past year, passionately trying to navigate the civic engagement system in the U.S. Zang, who often reminds his followers that the purpose of all battles is to achieve peace, was assigned to thank Liu for his support of the test as an icebreaker. But coming from work, he was a little late. The icebreaker was omitted. The meeting started in a rather awkward way with a sense of old grudges still hanging in the air.

But in the end, everyone was happy. Veto Kwan, an IT engineer, put on the table two T-shirts he had designed that bore the words: “Keep SHSAT.” “We brought some gifts for you and your staff,” he said to Liu. “I love the color. It’s blue,” quipped Liu, a die-hard Democrat. “But we also have red ones,” Kwan said matterof-factly.

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August 12, 2019 Secretary Alex Azar Department of Health and Human Services Hubert H. Humphrey Building, Room 509F, 200 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20201 Re: Section 1557 NPRM, RIN 0945-AA11, “Nondiscrimination in Health and Health Education Programs or Activities” Dear Mr. Secretary: The National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance is a federation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander (API) organizations. Last year, NQAPIA for a series of community town hall meetings in 8 cities called “Movement Convergences” where people identified health care needs as a priority concerns for LGBT APIs. As such, we oppose the proposed rule to Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act to eliminate critical nondiscrimination protections in health and health education programs and activities.

The current rule has been crucial for LGBT patients to be able to access the care and coverage that they need, and promotes equal access to health services.

The proposed rule would severely threaten LGBT and API patients’ access to health care and health coverage, create confusion among patients and providers, and promote discrimination. It could: • encourage hospitals to deny care to LGBT people • enable insurance companies to deny transgender people coverage for health care services • create barriers to health care for people with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) and people suffering from chronic health conditions, like HIV/ AIDS. We urge the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to withdraw the proposed rule.

Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act and a 2016 implementing rule provided many LGBT people with meaningful health care options where they previously had few or none at all, have helped address the pervasive discrimination LGBT people often face in health care and coverage, and have made it possible for many transgender and non-transgender people alike to access essential care.

We are also opposed to changes to roll back this and other rules that prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation, namely 45 CFR 155.120(c)(1)(ii) and 155.220(j)(2), 45 CFR 147.104(e), 45 CFR 156.200(e) and 156.1230(b)(3), 42 CFR 460.98(b)(3) and 460.112(a), 42 CFR 438.3(d)(4), 438.206(c)(2), and 440.262.

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The proposed rule will impede health care access for people with HIV/AIDS and other serious or chronic conditions. It will exempt most health insurance plans from Section 1557’s nondiscrimination protections, which could result in health insurers excluding benefits or limit prescription drugs for those living with HIV/AIDS and other chronic conditions.

The proposed rule will also make it more challenging for LGBT patients who are limited English proficient (LEP) to understand their health care rights under federal law. Many individuals may not know about their rights, how to request language services, or how to file a complaint if they face discrimination.

Over 25 million Americans are limited English proficient (LEP). An estimated 19 million LEP adults are insured. Language assistance is necessary for LEP persons to access health care. Yet, the proposed rule would eliminate tagline requirements, notice standards, and language access plans.

Two out of three (63%) of Asians and Pacific Islanders speak a language other than English in their homes. One in ten do not speak English well, or not at all. The Asian ethnic groups who have the highest levels of limited English proficiency and would be most adversely affected by the proposed rule, are: Vietnamese (53%) Chinese (46%), Korean (45%), Thai (45%), Cambodian (44%), and Bangladeshi (43%). A disproportionate number of LGBT APIs are limited English proficient and will be denied access to health care because of this proposed rule.

Because of the enormous need, the taglines and notice requirements are not overly burdensome We have grave concerns about the proposed rule and again urge the HHS to withdraw it.

Sincerely, Glenn D. Magpantay Executive Director

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About NQAPIA Mission: The National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance is a federation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander (API) organizations. NQAPIA builds the capacity of local LGBT API groups, develops leadership, promotes visibility, educates the community, invigorates grassroots organizing, encourages collaborations, and challenges anti-LGBT bias and racism.

Vision: We are building a world where every Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander (API) person is fully accepted and celebrated in their homes, families, jobs, places of worship and communities regardless of their sexual orientation or gender-identity.

NQAPIA Current Programs •

Annual Leadership Summit of LGBT API Organizations This weekend long training focuses on networking, learning about current issues, sharing strategies, building local organizational infrastructure, and forging collaborative programs. Prior Summits were held in New Orleans (2016), Honolulu (2013), San Jose (2011), Chicago (2010), Denver (2008) and Oakland, CA (2005). In between, we host Regional Summits for the West Coast, Northeast, South, and Midwest. The next Summit will likely be in Las Vegas, NV on August 22 to 25, 2019 (TBD).

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Triennial National Conference This conference brings together grassroots LGBT API activists from across the nation. Prior national conferences were in San Francisco in 2018 (698 attendees), Chicago in 2015 (347 attendees), Washington, DC in 2012 (368 attendees) and Seattle in 2009 (250 attendees). New York’s 2004 conference (400 attendees) helped lay the groundwork for NQAPIA’s initial convening. The next conference will be in 2021 likely in Atlanta GA (tentative).

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LGBT Immigrants’ Rights & Racial Justice In collaboration with local LGBT API groups, we are spearheading an educational and advocacy campaign blending immigrants’ rights with racial justice, at the intersection of queerness that includes local actions, community forums, and story-telling.

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Multilingual Visibility Campaign NQAPIA promotes the visibility and acceptance of LGBTs in the mainstream API community and of APIs in the broader LGBT community. This multilingual education campaign includes outreach to the Asian ethnic media and educational pieces translated into Asian languages.

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Capacity Building Resources This includes a descriptive directory of all of the nation’s LGBT API groups, direct financial support, fiscal sponsorship, and special trainings/workshops.

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A Voice in Current Issues NQAPIA ensures LGBT API engagement in current policy issues. NQAPIA is the only LGBT member of the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans, the coalition of national API advocacy organizations. And we add a racial justice lens to current LGBT issues.

Founded in 2005, NQAPIA is a tax-exempt 501(c)3 nonprofit charitable organization. EIN Number 272114866

NQAPIA Staff Glenn D. Magpantay, Esq., Executive Director Khudai Tanveer, Membership Organizer Amanda Saich, Development Assistant Conor Huynh, Administrative Assistant Patrick Lee, Grant Writer Linda Le, Bookkeeper Janani Balasubramanian, Social Media Consultant Roberta Sklar, Media Consultant

glenn_magpantay@nqapia.org khudai@nqapia.org amanda@nqapia.org conor@nqapia.org patrick@nqapia.org

Contact NQAPIA Post Office Box 1277 Old Chelsea Station New York, NY 10113 For Express Mail or Personal Delivery, use: NQAPIA; 217 West 18th Street, Box 1277; New York, NY 10011-9998 Website: www.nqapia.org Email: info@nqapia@org Facebook: www.facebook.com/nqapia Twitter: @nqapia; #nqapia Youtube: youtube.com/user/nqapia LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/National-Queer-Asian-Pacific-Islander-4673352 NQAPIA Board of Directors Stan Fong, IT Consultant, Atlanta, GA – Co-Chair Sharita Gruberg, Center for American Progress, Washington, DC - Treasurer Shilpa Joshi, Renew Oregon, Portland OR Navid Ladha, Trikone-ATX, Austin, TX Moof Mayeda, New Relic Software, Portland OR Milap Patel, Open Society Foundations, New York, NY– Secretary Kham Moua, OCA APA Advocates, Washington, DC Kevin Lam, Asian American Resource Workshop, Boston, MA Julia Rhee, Retrofit Republic, San Francisco, CA – Co-Chair Cathy Chu, GSA Network, Los Angeles, CA Andrew Chou, Bank of America, New York, NY * Affiliations for identification purposes only.

National Queer Asian and Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) Strategic Plan, 2019 – 2023 FINAL Introduction The NQAPIA Board of Directors and staff are excited to present NQAPIA’s new three to five year Strategic Plan. The plan was developed over a year with extensive input from member groups and partners and introspection from Board and staff. The plan guides NQAPIA to be more responsive in a new political climate and to advance organizing; recommits NQAPIA to our original founding mission to support smaller all-volunteer local LGBT API groups; and shifts our work to be less transactional and more transformative. NQAPIA is also committed to resourcing this plan to ensure implementation and towards this has already made significant strategic decisions in our fund development. We look forward to continue working with member groups, partners, allies, Board, and current and future staff to build a Queer Asian Movement.

Summary In spring 2018, NQAPIA began a planning process to envision and develop strategic priorities that can guide the organization over the next three years. The landscape for queer and trans Asian and Pacific Islanders (QTAPI) has been changing over the past several years—in many ways for the better. However, big challenges still exist that try to deny or strip QTAPI of their rights, put individuals and communities in danger, and prevent people from freely expressing who they are. Given this backdrop, NQAPIA’s planning effort was focused on helping key stakeholders—member groups, Board, and staff—explore and discuss how NQAPIA can increase its influence and impact over the next three years.

The planning process involved discussions with the Board of Directors to understand and develop different scenarios for NQAPIA. Given previous discussions at the Staff and Board levels, these scenarios offered different perspectives on how NQAPIA can embrace and incorporate more organizing and movement awareness in its core work.

These scenarios were presented to member groups for their input at NQAPIA’s 2018 national conference in San Francisco in July. Following the national conference, the Planning Committee of the Board met several times to develop and agree upon the main priorities for the strategic plan.

As a result of the planning process, NQAPIA has recommitted itself to engaging, supporting, and connecting groups that work directly with QTAPI communities across the country. Of particular importance for NQAPIA, especially in the current moment, is helping to link local communities and their work to national LGBTQ, API and social 1

justice efforts. NQAPIA recognizes the importance of building a national QTAPI political perspective and working actively and intentionally to combine and amplify a collective voice that promotes pro-QTAPI policy change and addresses the root causes of oppression and injustice.

NQAPIA sees itself as a key organization supporting member groups—and especially groups that do not normally have access to resources and opportunities—in their political education, leadership development, and organizing training, while also serving as a primary coordinator for national issue-based LGBTQ API campaigns.

In order to realize this vision, NQAPIA sets forth the following strategic priorities to help guide the growth and development of the organization from 2019 through 2021: 1. Incorporate an organizing perspective, framework and values into all NQAPIA efforts and activities; 2. Focus NQAPIA’s target population on groups (formal and informal) that work directly with QTAPI communities and lack access to resources and support; 3. Strengthen NQAPIA’s capacity building offerings to groups; and 4. Increase NQAPIA’s ability to lead and manage the organization’s operations.

5. Develop and implement a comprehensive communications strategy for NQAPIA. Strategic Priorities The initial timeline is 2019-2021 but with the understanding that in the course of implementation some of these priorities may take longer than expected, and the plan may last until 2023.

1. Incorporate an organizing perspective, framework and values into all NQAPIA efforts and activities.

NQAPIA recognizes the importance of building joint and collaborative efforts that magnify the voices of all QTAPI and increase our community’s ability to envision and drive change. Going forward, NQAPIA commits to incorporate more intensely into all of its work a sense of responsibility to understand issues and to push for justice.

NQAPIA understands that groups and individuals may come to NQAPIA for a variety of reasons and that NQAPIA’s responsibility is to help them gain an awareness of the importance of having a political analysis and voice, and to prepare those that are ready to gain and build their skills to mobilize and make change. a. Support the development of and aligning with a community-driven “justice” platform • Timeframe: Draft by Q1 2019, gather feedback during NQAPIA’s summit in August 2019 b. Clarify and articulate NQAPIA’s organizing perspective and framework, which includes: • Engaging Board members and staff in developing a draft 2

• •

Providing member groups with opportunities to provide feedback Timeframe: By Q2 2019

c. Develop and implement a curriculum that increases QTAPI’s understanding of organizing and ability to organize for impact on issues and policies that are important to our community, which may include: • Organizing curricula around specific learning tracks based on member groups’ knowledge and capacity • Providing different levels of engagement, such as making toolkits available to groups with limited capacity to political organizing training for groups that have capacity • Supporting newly “politicized” groups help their constituents get politicized • Providing a variety of opportunities that help members embrace NQAPIA’s perspectives • Timeframe: By Q2 2019 d. Incorporate NQAPIA’s organizing perspective into non-organizing campaigns and work, such as: • Integrating organizing training into potluck gatherings • Timeframe: By Q4 2020 e. Develop a consistent root cause analysis of QTAPI issues (to inform what NQAPIA is and what it does, and the organization overall priorities) • Timeframe: By Q2 2021 f. Develop and implement at least two organizing campaigns that impact QTAPI communities nationally, which may address issues such as: • Health and healing justice • The rise of the right in API communities • Timeframe: By Q2 2021 2. Focus NQAPIA’s target population on groups that work directly with QTAPI communities and lack access to resources and support.

While NQAPIA welcomes all QTAPI groups to be part of this federation, a particular priority for the organization is to outreach to and target groups which are working directly for and with QTAPI communities, and which lack access to resources that can support those efforts. NQAPIA recognizes that this type of group—formal and informal efforts that focus on collective work—are often the most vulnerable but, if given the right attention and support, can also become the most impactful in their local communities and as part of national efforts. Lastly, NQAPIA cannot develop its political work without being in alliance with other organizations and efforts. a. Develop and implement mechanisms for regularly soliciting member input on their needs/issues and campaigns.

• Timeframe: Ongoing 3

1. One touchpoint with individual member group at a rate of at least one time every 4 months for a total of 3 times per year. b. Develop and implement an outreach strategy that identifies and engages NQAPIA’s target population, which includes: • Defining different tiers of engagement based on the target population’s capacity and skill levels • Timeframe: Start Q4 2019 c. Communicate and share opportunities for engagement with NQAPIA members through regular conference calls, which may include: • Featuring different voices in each call • Providing opportunities for video conferences d. Provide opportunities for sharing and amplifying member voices, such as (but not limited to): • Quarterly guest blogs by board/membership • Featuring member voices in storytelling campaigns • Co-pitch a story to media outlets with member groups • Feature members in NQAPIA’s monthly newsletter 3. Strengthen NQAPIA’s capacity building offerings to groups.

NQAPIA is committed to making sure that QTAPI groups—and especially the ones which do not have access to resources and opportunities—have the awareness, knowledge, and abilities to establish, stabilize, and strengthen their organizations so that they can have bigger impacts in their communities. Core to this work will be expanding and strengthening NQAPIA’s capacity building offerings and work with groups so that they can not only survive but also thrive. a. Create individualized capacity building plans for each member organization that is related to the specific tier • Timeframe: By Q1 2020 b. Develop a member coaching program that can provide groups with individualized learning and guidance, which includes: • Clarifying who from a group is eligible for coaching c. Update and expand NQAPIA’s curricula.

• Establish different learning tracks based on member/cohort tier • Integrate organizing principles into capacity building curricula.

• Develop a curriculum on organizing in QTAPI communities.

• Timeframe: Begin 2019, test and modify 2020, complete by 2021

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d. Revamp “travel support” opportunities for conferences and summits as ways to outreach to and engage with members groups, which includes clarification of eligibility prioritizing, when possible, under-resourced groups.

• Timeframe: By 2021 e. Create a new member learning cohort program that: • Clarifies criteria for and expectations of member participation • Clarifies priorities and criteria for cohort make-up • Provides a menu of options and activities • Engages the member groups in peer learning and support • Engages “graduated” member groups as mentors or coaches to newer cohort member groups • Timeframe: By 2021

4. Increase NQAPIA’s ability to lead and manage the organization’s operations.

NQAPIA understands that it will need to grow its ability to lead and manage the organization’s operations. This effort will be to not only increase NQAPIA’s overall capacity to do work, but to also do that work more efficiently and more effectively. a. Increase NQAPIA’s staffing capacity to at least four full-time individuals by hiring a development/fundraising person first, and second a communications person b. Diversify NQAPIA’s revenue mix to strengthen sustainability.

• Expand the number of fundraising events.

• Explore opportunities to develop and grow a base of individual donors.

• Devise new ways to package more specific activities for grant proposals (e.g., travel support grants for conferences and summits).

• Explore opportunities to develop fee-based programming and earned revenue strategies. c. Create mechanisms for members to have input on NQAPIA’s resource allocation. d. Train staff and board on how to use Salsa CRM for relationship management with donors, participants, organizations, leaders, funders, volunteers. e. Clean up and make more usable the Salsa CRM database.

• Timeframe: Ongoing f. Create process for regularly cleaning up Salsa CRM database for everyone to follow.

5. Develop and implement a comprehensive communications plan for NQAPIA. 5

As NQAPIA makes this shift to integrate a stronger organizing perspective into all of its effort, it will be important to be clear and deliberate about how the organization communicates with external stakeholders, such as member groups, partners, allies, and donors. The communications strategy, among many things, should help NQAPIA build its base, keep members updated on what the organization is doing, share tools and strategies, and connect with donors. a. Strengthen NQAPIA’s online presence and digital strategy, which includes (but is not limited to): • Website • Search optimization • Social media b. Increase NQAPIA’s technology capacity c. Develop and clarify roles and internal guidelines for posting to social media Note: Priority #5 was identified during the board and staff retreat on 12/1/18 and needs further clarification and implementation planning with clear accountability for staff and board members who may want to take some of the responsibilities related to this priority.

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Building Leaderful Groups

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Getting Help Setting Goals for Future Skill-Building and Making Use of Coaching Getting help can be hard. It runs counter to many of cultural values: independence, individuality, personal control, self-help, competition, to name a few. Activists tend to focus on skills on help others – but spend less emphasis on our own development.

Getting help is necessary. If we are to grow, learn, not burn-out, and win then we need help. In this tool we create some space and time for people to think through how can they continue to learn and get help.

HOW TO LEAD Break into groups of four. Every group will have a set of post-its and a blank sheet of newsprint.

Together brainstorm the kinds of skills you will need in your context, write each skill on a post it and put it on the newsprint. It’s okay to list skills that are already your strengths and skill that you are still working to improve.

Be as specific as you can, for example, if the skills is “writing”, try to make it more specific to what kind of writing you will be doing most of – sending out emails to supporters, writing newsletters, writing press releases, grants because each of these things requires its own kind of expertise. If the skill is something like “outreach,” try to think about what kinds of settings you will be doing outreach, is it door-knocking, making phone calls, attending coalition meetings, etc, and what skills would help you be better at each of those things.

Once you have a good list generated, pick three or four that seem most urgent to you right now or that you’d like to be focusing more energy on improving.

Now, pair up with someone in your small group. Each of you will be given time to get support from the other to talk through these three things:  Who do you know that can support you to learn/develop these skills? (This can include the trainers in this workshop who will be working with you as mentors, other participants you’ve met here or people outside this room who are a part of your network?  What is a specific request you can make to those people that would support you to learn those skills?  What can you do between now and the next training to take a step towards working on those goals.

In large group, debrief. What is the value of asking for help? How can that be seen as a skill itself? What are ways we show resistance to asking for help? What holds us back from seeking help from others?

by Nico Amador, Training for Change Training for Change • www.TrainingForChange.org

Creating a Menu of Tasks Event Planning for Leadership Development Going through this exercise can help you identify what tasks are essential to event planning and where there is opportunity for skill-building and leadership development. Follow the questions – when done you can appropriately delegate tasks or volunteer for roles based on a sense of the big picture, as well as the opportunities for skill building.  What is the event you are planning?  What are the goals of event? o include task goals like get 50 people to a city council member as well as process goals, such as giving people a greater understanding of how city laws are passed o don’t get too caught into word-smithing or over-thinking your goals  What are the tasks that are absolutely necessary for the event to happen? o match these nuts and bolts tasks with the goals o To get a full menu, break-down the large tasks into highly specific sub-tasks  What would be a great addition to the event, but is not necessarily essential?

You now have a menu of tasks to be performed to carry out the event – with essential versus unessential tasks separated.

Last step is to circle items where there is opportunity within your group for leadership development. This means, if there is a task such as “contacting the media” where specific skills can be gained, circle it. Keep this task list in mind when doing one-on-ones.

AN EXAMPLE MENU OF TASKS Event: The Annual Dinner & Awards Ceremony Goals: Energize membership, celebrate accomplishments, build community Large Task: Prepare the dinner and all food Sub-task: Buy paper goods Sub-task: Buy drinks Sub-task: Set up tables and chairs on the day Sub-task: Cook lasagna Large Task: Sell dinner tickets Sub-task: Get tickets printed Sub-task: Sell tickets by phone

Sub-task: Send out dinner flyer announcements Sub-task: Call membership list about dinner Sub-task: Stuff envelopes on February 2nd at 8:00pm at the office Large Task: Awards Ceremony Sub-task: Get awards speaker to motivate crowd Sub-task: Get all awards certificates or awards gifts

Sub-task: Design and print award certificates Sub-task: Notify all people who will get awards to make sure they attend

Sub-task: Write and print program, with a list of annual accomplishments Sub-task: Hand out program on night of dinner Sub-task: Staff sign-in table at dinner

Large Task: Dinner Programs This just includes necessary tasks. The next step would be to circle items especially for leadership development of group members.

Designed by Cory Fischer-Hoffman Edited by Daniel Hunter, Training for Change Task list from Building Powerful Community Organizations, by Michael Jacoby Brown Training for Change • www.TrainingForChange.org

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Organizing with Elicitive Questions Effective organizing helps people get what they want; helps people want what is consistent with their values; and clarifies and aligns their values. An important tool for accomplishing all this is elicitive questions.

Elicitive questions benefit both the person asking them and the person answering. The person asking the questions gets information – and information is an organizer's life blood! Elicitive questions help you understand people who disagree with you. By asking rather than arguing, you get their perspective; discover how they are framing the issue; find common ground with unexpected allies; and collect data. In that way they can strengthen relationships.

Elicitive questions encourage the person being asked to express their assumptions and beliefs.

They assist people to look beneath the surface, like peeling a layer of an onion.

Elicitive questions are not:  a yes or a no question  "why" questions, which often stir up resistance or allow people to wax philosophical or invite rationalization  long, complex questions that are hard to digest  a way to trick someone into the "right" answer Instead, elicitive questions:  connect people deeper with their own selves  create motion and options by assuming people have wisdom inside them  are short and simple  often ask the unaskable questions Examples of elicitive questions:  Specifically, when has that happened?  What parts of the proposal do you agree with?  How could you imagine us working together?  What would it take to convince you to...?  How did you reach that conclusion?  What jumps out at you when you look at this information?  What else?

By Daniel Hunter with Betsy Raasch-Gilman, Training for Change More from Fran Peavy’s booklet Strategic Questioning: An Experiment in Communication of the Second Kind Training for Change • www.TrainingForChange.org

One-On-One Meetings Relationship building is at the core of organizing – and happens in many different ways at different times. One core technique: the one-on-one.

GOALS OF ONE-ON-ONES The general purpose of the one-on-one is to build and strengthen a relationship. Other goals include:  setting and modeling boundaries that enable civic and community relationships to flourish (e.g. it is not that you should not be friends with the people you organize with but the goal is not to create friends, it is to create a strong organization, a strong community, a strong movement);  modeling the values of your organization (of generosity, honesty, resourcefulness, for example) – these should be lived throughout all your interactions with those you interact with;  modeling self-care and respectful ways of listening and sharing to create healthy relationship amongst people as well as between people and the challenging work of changing the world.

THE SET UP The specific reason for why you request to meet with someone should be known and shared with the person you want to meet with. Like all requests the person can negotiate their response, they may say no, yes ("of course") or modify or ask questions that help strengthen the purpose of the meeting, and the relationship. It is important to be as clear with yourself as you can before making the request and to be open and respectful of the needs and time constraints of the person you hope to meet with.

Once you are clear about the purpose as well as your hoped-for outcomes of the meeting choose the most appropriate way to set up the meeting. This is often based on the relationship you already have with the person, are they someone that prefers setting things up in person, by phone, by email, through their social networking site? If your connection to the person is through a recommendation of someone else can the recommender introduce the two of you through email, or in person or by phone? Or ask the recommender how best to make the request based on their experience-would the person prefer a call or email, for example?

The request should be short and clear and should include how much time you expect the meeting to last. Most people are okay with a 30 minute to one hour meeting and some one on ones could take place by meeting for breakfast or lunch, it all depends on the relationship that exists. The same is true for where to meet, a suggestion is to meet where it is convenient for the person and for you. The key is to set and manage the expectations for what the meeting is all about, what will be discussed, etc.

Make sure you have ways to contact each other in the event that something comes up and the plans need to change.

THE MEETING This is not a scripted meeting although you should come prepared to ask the questions that fit with the expected outcomes you have discussed with the person you are meeting with. There are often unexpected outcomes too, which can be very exciting. For example, the meeting may have been set

up to find out information but you leave with the person stepping up their interest in the organization, perhaps they are clear that they want to become a leader and you schedule a time for them to come into the office to learn more, get trained, to do some work. It is better to get more out of a meeting than what is expected so set realistic expectations and be happy when you are surprised.

Here are some sample questions that can be useful at one-on-one meetings:  How did you get involved in this issue?  What do you hope to accomplish in the short term, long term?  What organizations are you involved with, if any?  What are ways you were hoping to be involved, what do you want to learn?  Who else do you think I should talk with?  What do you think it would take to win?  What kind of support do you need to accomplish your goals?  What are special interests or skills you could contribute?

There are an unlimited number of questions you can ask to get the conversation going and to keep it focused. In general, questions are best when they open up opportunities for learning, “how”, “what” questions for example open up opportunities for story-telling. Questions that can be answered with a yes or no are not bad questions but try to mix them in appropriately to gain clarity or start a new conversation. Always remember the purpose of the meeting which is to build a stronger relationship to advance the effort, so although focus is important so is staying relaxed, honest and present.

One of the primary outcomes of a one-on-one is you learning more about the people and groups that the person you are meeting with knows, and vice-versa. If there is time find out from the person who else they suggest you talk with. This should be reciprocated if the person is interested in making contacts with people and groups that you know.

Take notes or document the meeting in the way that is most comfortable and effective for you. If taking notes takes you away from being present than take some moment at the end of the meeting to review the discussion and write some things down. As you document you meeting, consider what do you need to remember months later? And how will you organize your notes so you can find them again, including their contact information?

FOLLOW-UP Timely follow-up to one-on-ones is important and it is also where note-taking can be very helpful.

Follow-up in the most appropriate manner and in the way that was agreed upon (if it was agreed upon) at the meeting. Follow-through on any tasks that you agreed to on your end as well. You have invested a lot of time in the one-on-one and the quality and timeliness of your follow-through will often determine whether or not it was worth it. Follow-ups also should include specific next steps and deadlines if any were agreed to and helpful reminders along the way.

By Jethro Heiko, Action Mill (actionmill.com) Training for Change • www.TrainingForChange.org

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16"

8"

9"

18"

Strongly"Oppose"

10"

Bangladeshi"

17"

26"

Oppose"

30%"

25%"

Support"

Arab"

Korean"

Strongly"Support"

35%"

Educated""in"the"U.S."

13%"

6%"

11%"

10%"

8%"

7%"

80%"

20%" 10"

1" 2"

EDUCATION"

Other"Asian""

Filipino"

Vietnamese"

Korean"

Bangladeshi"

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Chinese"

LGBTQ"PROTECTION"by"ETHNICITY"

24%" 9" 9" 14"

NATIVITY"

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Profile of 2016 Asian American

ETHNICITY"

25%"

GA" TX"

29%" 28%"

NM"

35%" 29%"

NV" LA"

36%" 35%"

NJ" NY"

37%" 36%"

FL" All"Asian"Americans"

39%" 38%"

VA" MI"

41%" 40%"

CA"

42%"

PA" MA"

43%"

Support"

MD"

DC"

Strongly"Support"

31"

30"

26"

23"

73%"

26" 25"

39"

30" 29"

8" 13"

11"

15"

40"

35"

27"

29"

8"

8"

9"

7"

9"

6"

7" 9"

20"

14"

20"

19"

20"

14"

19"

19"

20"

24"

23"

29"

4"

13" 14"

20"

2" 5" 4"

Don't"Know"

8" 2"

6"

7" 7"

17"

6" 4"

3" 5" 9"

13"

10"

9"

8"

8"

8"

10"

Strongly"Oppose"

27"

29"

Oppose"

LGBTQ"PROTECTION"by"STATE"

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30"

27%"

10+"yrs"

29"

12"

11"

10"

10"

9"

8"

9"

23%"

18%"

8%"

12%"

Not"at"all"

15%"

46%"

36%"

30%"

Support"

Not"well"

Moderate"

Very"well"

All"Asian"Americans"

Strongly"Support"

26%"

21%"

8%"

13%"

10%"

30%"

36%"

35%"

29%"

15%"

20%"

Don't"Know"

20"

2"1" 7"

22"

26"

26"

24"

Don't"Know"

5%"5%"

9%" 7%"

Strongly"Oppose"

17%"

29%"

Oppose"

7"

28"

8"

8"

Strongly"Oppose"

LGBTQ"PROTECTION"by"ENGLISH"PROFICIENCY"

All"Asian"Americans"

36%"

27"

27%"

6`10"yrs"

62%"

29"

28%"

3`5"yrs"

US"

29"

Oppose"

28%"

Support"

0`2"yrs"

Strongly"Support"

LGBTQ"PROTECTION"by"NATIVITY"

0%"

5%"

10%"

15%"

20%"

25%"

30%"

17%"

15%"

15%" 11%"

94%"

93%"

88%"

86%"

9%"

22"

29"

No" Muslim" Catholic" Buddhist" Protestant" Hindu" affilia/on"

25%"

RELIGION"–"NATIONAL"

Filipino"

Indo`Caribbean"

Asian"Indian"

Pakistani"

79%"

68%"

All"Asian"Americans" Arab"

65%"

59%"

Bangladeshi"

Chinese"

53%"

31"

50%"

Vietnamese"

28"

49%"

Not"Well"

Korean"

Moderate"

Cambodian"

Very"Well"

ENGLISH"PROFICIENCY"by"ETHNICITY"

Other"

7%"

21"

32"

3"1"

5"

2"

2"

2"

Sikh"

1%"

5" 1"

7"

10" 2"

2"

2"1"

9" 2"

12"

18"

14"

16"

18"

20"

Not"At"All"

4

36%"

27"

25"

Oppose"

29"

33"

18%"

Some"high"school"

All"Asian"Americans"

Graduate"school"

College/university"

Trade"school"

21%"

48%"

28"

28"

27"

9"

9"

6"

4"

16"

11"

9"

9"

29"

10"

11"

9"

29" 9"

7" 10"

13"

31"

12"

11"

17"

18"

29"

12"

15"

19"

27"

34"

31"

30"

Don't"Know"

20"

19"

25"

6" 6" 6"

14" 20"

23"

6" 5"

5"

4" 3"

6" 3"

Don't"Know"

Strongly"Oppose"

23"

27"

Oppose"

18"

43%"

36%"

27%"

16%"

Elementary"school"

High"school"

17%"

Support"

No"formal"educa/on"in"the"U.S."

Strongly"Support"

18"

32"

28"

30"

Strongly"Oppose"

LGBTQ"PROTECTION"by"EDUCATION"

All"Asian"Americans"

20%"

30%"

Muslim"

Protestant"

31%"

Buddhist"

38%"

45%"

Hindu"

Catholic"

48%"

Support"

No"affilia/on"

Strongly"Support"

LGBTQ"PROTECTION"by"RELIGION"

16%"

20%"

36%"

24%"

31%"

42%"

26"

58%"

Support"

31"

31"

31"

All"Asian"Americans"

Female"

Male"

Support"

36%"

38%"

34%"

Strongly"Support"

29%"

8"

9"

10"

9"

9"

7"

7"

5" 6"

9%" 7%"

8%" 6%"

10%" 7%"

Strongly"Oppose"

29%"

30%"

Oppose"

12" 16"

29"

27"

Strongly"Oppose"

22" 29"

Oppose"

LGBTQ"PROTECTION"by"GENDER"

All"Asian"Americans"

70+"

60`69"

50`59"

40`49"

30`39"

18`29"

Strongly"Support"

LGBTQ"PROTECTION"by"AGE"

20%"

20%"

19%"

Don't"Know"

20"

26"

25"

25"

23"

18"

3" 3" 10"

Don't"Know"

5

59%"

Not"Enrolled"

Other"

36%"

32%"

Not"enrolled"

All"Asian"Americans"

35%"

16%"

42%"

15%"

27%"

29%"

32%"

9%" 7%"

10%" 5%"

8%" 7%"

13%"

7%" 6%"

Strongly"Oppose"

29%"

Oppose"

33%"

Support"

Other"party"

Republican"

Democrat"

Strongly"Support"

LGBTQ"PROTECTION"by"PARTY"ENROLLMENT"

3%"

Republican"

12%"

27%"

Democrat"

PARTY"ENROLLMENT"–"NATIONAL"

19%"

21%"

20%"

23%"

18%"

Don't"Know"

50%" 39%"

Vote"for"U.S."House"

Vote"for"U.S."Senate"

Vote"for"President"

Democrat"

7" 27"

Republican"

76%"

73%"

79%"

23"

6"

10" 3"

ASIAN"AMERICAN"VOTE"_"NATIONAL"

Vietnamese"

Cambodian"

52%" 50%"

Filipino" Chinese"

3"

3" 5"

2"

12" 12"

63%" 59%"

Korean" All"Asian"Americans"

10" 2"

18"

23"

16%"

21%"

18%"

20"

27"

13" 17"

24"

31"

38"

36"

5" 5"

2"2"

3"2"

5" 3" 8"

Not"enrolled"

64%"

72%"

Other"party"

Asian"Indian"

Arab"

79%"

83%"

Pakistani"

84%"

Bangladeshi"

Republican"

Indo`Caribbean"

Democrat"

PARTY"ENROLLMENT"by"ETHNICITY"

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FL"

CA"

Filipino"

Chinese"

Asian"Indian"

Vietnamese"

Filipino"

Chinese"

21%"

52%"

Support"

38%"

54%"

41%"

32%"

Strongly"Support"

Oppose"

59"

35"

31"

23"

43"

9" 3"

10"

5" 5"

10" 13"

21"

20"

11" 2" 4"

12"

Don't"Know"

7" 5"

36"

Strongly"Oppose"

LGBTQ"PROTECTION"by"ETHNICITY"by"STATE"

BY ETHNICITY BY STATE

Support for LGBTQ Protection

36%"

22"

7"

10"

TX"

GA"

Vietnamese"

Chinese"

Asian"Indian"

Korean"

Chinese"

Asian"Indian"

19%"

23%"

17%"

39%"

28"

46"

Oppose"

29"

29"

Support"

38%"

24%"

Strongly"Support"

13"

24"

16"

15"

36"

25"

7"

8"

4"

2"3"

15"

14"

20" 26"

3"1"

19"

9"

4" 7"

29"

26"

16"

18"

17"

24"

Don't"Know"

6"

25"

23"

Don't"Know"

12"

6" 5"

Strongly"Oppose"

LGBTQ"PROTECTION"by"ETHNICITY"by"STATE"

Pakistani"

Korean"

25"

55%"

10"

11"

Indo`Caribbean"

21"

9"

6" 6"

31"

25"

33"

30"

Strongly"Oppose"

52%"

22%"

33%"

Chinese"

26"

Oppose"

Filipino"

NY"

30%"

36%"

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Bangladeshi"

Asian"Indian"

Strongly"Support"

LGBTQ"PROTECTION"by"ETHNICITY"by"STATE"

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26%"

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37%"

37%"

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Overview of LGBTQ Asian and Pacific Islanders Responses to the 13th Annual LGBTQ Community Survey® Introduction The Annual LGBTQ Community Survey® is a project of Community Marketing & Insights (CMI), an LGBTQ focused market research company based in San Francisco, CA. CMI partners with about 200 LGBTQ media, events, and non-profit organizations to promote this 10-minute long multilingual online survey to LGBTQ community members around the world. Survey topics include but are not limited to social/political issues, health issues, personal finance, entertainment, media consumption, consumer products, etc.

CMI’s research has earned a reputation as the industry standard, and we’ve been quoted in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, CBS News, NPR, CNN, Reuters, Associated Press, eMarketer, Mashable, and many other international, national and regional media.

The 13th Annual LGBTQ Community Survey was fielded in English, Spanish, and French from April 1 to May 31, 2019. In the USA alone, 11,639 participants age 18-77 from all 50 states and District of Columbia completed the study.

This report is based on the 594 USA participants who identify as Asian, Asian American or of Asian descent and/or Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander. Of the API participants, 33% (196) were recruited from NQAPIA and its member organizations, 22% (133) were recruited from CMI’s proprietary LGBTQ research panel, and 45% (220) were from other non-API focused LGBTQ media, events and non-profit research partners. Because CMI has little control over partner sample or response, we do not profess that the results are representative of the “entire API LGBTQ community.” Instead, these results are a large sample of LGBTQ community members who interact with LGBTQ media, events and organizations.

To read the full 13th Annual LGBTQ Community Survey® USA results, or to learn more about Community Marketing & Insights, please visit www.CMI.info or email Lu Xun at lu@communitymarketinginc.com.

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Basic Demographics 1. How do you describe yourself? Please mark all that apply.

Female Male Transgender Trans woman Trans man Intersex Questioning Non-binary Genderqueer Gender fluid Agender Two spirit Other Base

38% 51% 6% 2% 4% 0% 3% 13% 8% 7% 2% 1% 3% 594

2. How do you describe yourself? Please mark all that apply.

Lesbian Gay woman Gay man Bisexual Biromantic Bi+ Pansexual Panromantic Demisexual Demiromantic Homoromantic Same gender loving Asexual Queer Questioning Straight or heterosexual Other Base

16% 13% 46% 17% 3% 6% 10% 3% 4% 1% 2% 4% 5% 38% 3% 1% 2% 594

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3. Age Break 18-29 30-39 40+ Base

35% 28% 37% 594

4. Regions West South Northeast Midwest Base

42% 24% 23% 10% 594

5. Which of the following best describes your current relationship status?

Please mark any that apply.

Single / not in a relationship 40% In a relationship but not living with a partner (dating) 14% In a relationship and living with a partner (no legal status) 20% Legally married 21% Civil union, registered domestic partner or common law 3% Engaged 3% Widow / Widower 1% Divorced from a same-sex spouse 2% Divorced from an opposite-sex spouse 1% Polyamorous relationship 4% Other 1% Prefer not to answer 1% Base 594 6. You indicated that you are in a relationship. How would you describe your relationship?

Please mark any that apply.

Lesbian & Gay & Bi Men Bi Women Same-sex couple (female-female or male-male couple) 97% 77% Opposite-sex couple (female-male couple) 3% 15% Non-binary / Transgender couple (where one or both partners identifies as transgender or outside the gender binary) 0% 18% Queer couple (any gender) 2% 23% Polyamorous relationship 4% 5% Base (Among those married, engaged, CU/RD, or living together) 159 124

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7. Do you have children or grandchildren? Please mark all that apply.

Yes, I have children under age 18 living in my home.

Yes, I have children under age 18 not living in my home.

Yes, I have children over age 18.

Yes, I have grandchildren No Prefer not to answer Base

5% 1% 3% 1% 90% 1% 594

8. What's your current employment situation? Please mark all that apply.

Employed full-time 60% Employed part-time (one or more jobs) 14% Self-employed or business owner 11% Student 17% Retired 6% Unemployed and looking for a job 5% Unemployed and not looking for a job 2% Disabled 3% Current or past military 0.3% Other 1% None of the above 0.2% Base 594

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Community Engagement 9. We want to explore your personal connection with the LGBTQ community.

Do you agree or disagree with these statements?

Strongly Agree Somewhat Agree I am proud to be a member of the LGBTQ community Somewhat Disagree Strongly Disagree Base Strongly Agree Somewhat Agree I regularly read or view the LGBTQ media Somewhat Disagree Strongly Disagree Base Strongly Agree I donate to or volunteer with at least one LGBTQ nonprofit Somewhat Agree organization Somewhat Disagree Strongly Disagree Base Strongly Agree Somewhat Agree I feel supported by the LGBTQ community Somewhat Disagree Strongly Disagree Base 10. Do you connect more with the Asian community, the LGBTQ community, or both?

Choose the one that best applies.

I connect equally with the Asian and the LGBTQ community I connect more with the Asian community I connect more with the LGBTQ community I don’t have much of a connection with either community Not Sure Base (Among Asian /Asian American Responses)

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72% 24% 2% 1% 594 44% 39% 15% 3% 594 42% 28% 20% 11% 594 33% 55% 9% 3% 594

29% 13% 43% 11% 4% 556

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11. Which type(s) of LGBTQ events have you attended in the past 12 months?

Please mark all that apply.

LGBTQ Pride parade or festival 66% LGBTQ cultural, arts or film event 41% LGBTQ nonprofit gala or fundraiser 28% LGBTQ professional association meeting or conference 27% LGBTQ circuit party / dance event 20% LGBTQ sports tournament or event 10% LGBTQ event at a theme park 6% Asian/South Asian LGBTQ community event African American / Black LGBTQ community event Latino / Hispanic LGBTQ community event

30% 11% 7%

Lesbian community event among lesbian/gay women Women's event (not lesbian-specific) among women Transgender community event among transgender & non-binary participants Bisexual community event among bisexual/pansexual participants Bear community event among all men Leather community event among men LGBTQ families event among those with children under 18

39% 45% 53% 13% 6% 14% 39%

Other LGBTQ event None of the above Base

10% 13% Varies

12. Of the above terms, which is your preferred term to describe our community? Please mark only one.

Gay & Bi Lesbian & Transgender/ All API Men Bi Women Non-binary 18-29 30-39 40+ LGBTQ 22% 31% 17% 13% 12% 21% 34% Queer 21% 9% 28% 35% 34% 20% 8% LGBT 19% 30% 13% 5% 11% 14% 33% LGBTQ+ 18% 14% 24% 16% 22% 23% 10% LGBTQIA+ 9% 4% 11% 19% 10% 10% 8% LGBT+ 5% 8% 3% 2% 5% 5% 5% LGBTQIA 2% 2% 2% 3% 1% 3% 1% Base 565 262 192 111 204 158 203

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Financial Wellbeing 13. On a 5-point scale, how would you rate your current financial situation?

5 – Very Positive, I’m doing great financially 4 – Positive, I am doing better than most 3 – Neutral, I’m doing alright financially but just breaking even 2 – Negative, I’m falling behind financially 1 – Very Negative, I am struggling to make financial ends meet Base

15% 44% 30% 7% 3% 594

14. Would you say that you (and your family living in your household) are better off or worse off financially than a year ago?

Better off 37% About the same 47% Worse off 14% Not sure 2% Base 594 15. Do you think that a year from now you (and your family living in your household) will be better off financially, or worse off, or just about the same as now?

Better off 39% About the same 48% Worse off 6% Not sure 7% Base 594 16. Which of the following banking or financial services do you currently use/own?

Please mark all that apply.

Checking account 95% Credit card (any kind) 89% Money market, savings, or CD account 63% Retirement account of any kind (e.g., 401K, IRA, RRSP, TFSA) 62% Online brokerage account / stock purchase account 31% Home mortgage 30% Student loans* 28% Utilize tax advice or tax preparation services 24% Financial planning services (by company or independent financial planner) 18% Home improvement or home equity loan 5% Business loans 2% Base 594 *Student loans among 18-29 (37%); 30-39 (32%); 40+ (18%) © 2019 Community Marketing, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Media Consumption 17. Has your interaction with LGBTQ media (newspapers, websites, etc.) changed over the past 12 months?

Increased 29% Same 50% Decreased 5% Visiting LGBTQ news websites/apps Do not read 16% Base 586 Increased 27% Same 51% Decreased 7% Visiting LGBTQ entertainment websites/apps Do not read 15% Base 588 Increased 12% Same 39% Decreased 9% Reading LGBTQ national magazines Do not read 40% Base 588 Increased 12% Same 39% Decreased 9% Reading LGBTQ regional newspapers Do not read 41% Base 590 18. How are you influenced when companies advertise in the LGBTQ digital and print media?

Significantly more likely to purchase when they advertise in the LGBTQ media

21%

Somewhat more likely to purchase when they advertise in the LGBTQ media

47%

Has little influence on me

25%

Less likely to purchase when they advertise in the LGBTQ media

0.3%

I don’t view LGBTQ media

7%

Base

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19. Has your use of these social media platforms or search engines increased, stayed the same, or decreased over the past 12 months, compared to the previous year?

Base n=594 Increased Same Decreased Do not use Instagram 41% 27% 8% 24% YouTube 35% 52% 11% 2% Google Search 28% 67% 3% 1% Twitter 24% 23% 12% 41% Facebook 19% 39% 32% 10% Pinterest 9% 14% 16% 61% Snapchat 6% 12% 20% 61% Bing 3% 9% 6% 83% 20. Which of the following social platforms have you used in the past 30 days?

Please mark all that apply.

YouTube 88% Facebook 85% Instagram 68% LinkedIn 54% Twitter 48% WhatsApp 38% Snapchat 26% Tumblr 25% Pinterest 20% None of the above 2% Base 594

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Product Consumption 21. Do you and/or your spouse/partner currently own or lease one or more automobiles or vehicles?

Yes, own 60% Yes, lease 8% No 34% Base 594 22. What type of automobiles/vehicles do you currently own or lease?

Check all that apply as multiple selections might exist for the same car.

Sedan 42% SUV (sports utility vehicle) 27% Hybrid/electric of any car type 13% Wagon or hatchback 12% Coupe 9% Cross-over 7% Sportscar 7% Luxury car 7% Truck 6% Motorcycle 3% Van or minivan 2% Other 4% Base 395 23. Are you considering purchasing or leasing a new automobile or vehicle in the coming 12 months?

Yes 16% No 71% Undecided 13% Base 594 24. In the past 12 months, have you used cannabis/marijuana in any form for recreational or medical reasons?

Yes 40% No 56% Not Sure 1% Prefer not to answer 3% Base 594

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25. Shown to those age 21 or older: In the past 90 days, have you consumed any type of beverage containing alcohol?

Yes 80% No 20% Not sure 1% Base (Age 21+) 565 26. In the past 90 days, what types of alcohol beverages have you purchased at a bar, restaurant or for home?

Please mark all that apply.

Gay & Bi Lesbian & Transgender/ All API Men Bi Women Non-binary 18-29 30-39 40+ Beer (any type) 64% 60% 68% 65% 68% 66% 58% Wine (any type) 68% 71% 66% 64% 58% 75% 71% Bourbon or Whiskey 43% 43% 43% 45% 38% 51% 42% Gin 28% 31% 25% 27% 32% 31% 23% Rum 26% 24% 29% 27% 33% 30% 18% Tequila 34% 34% 33% 36% 40% 32% 30% Vodka 44% 52% 36% 35% 42% 46% 44% Flavored malt beverage* 15% 13% 14% 19% 23% 14% 8% Other type of alcohol 16% 19% 14% 14% 15% 16% 18% Base (Among those who consumed alcohol beverages 77 in the past 90 days) 450 221 152 (low base) 149 138 163 *Flavored malt beverage (like a hard lemonade or hard seltzer)

27. Have you (or you and your partner) purchased any of the following items during the past 12 months? Please mark all that apply.

Article of clothing over $100 41% Smartphone 37% Major piece of home furniture over $500 25% Desktop or laptop computer for personal use 23% Electronic equipment or device over $500 20% Major kitchen appliance over $500 10% None of the above 30% Base 594

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28. Have you (or you and your partner) purchased any of the following during the past 12 months? Please mark all that apply.

Airplane ticket 78% Night in a hotel, resort or vacation rental property 69% Longer vacation of 4 nights or more 49% Shorter vacation of 3 nights or less 48% Cruise vacation 6% None of the above 15% Base 594 29. Have you (or you and your partner) paid for any of the following entertainment during the past 12 months? Please mark all that apply.

A movie ticket at a theater 78% Streaming television subscription (e.g. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu) 73% Live music concert 52% Live theatre or musical 50% Cable internet 49% Subscription radio or paid music (e.g. SiriusXM, Pandora, Spotify, Apple Music) 45% Cable television (basic or with premium channels) 32% None of the above 4% Base 594 30. In the past six months, have you purchased any of these cosmetic, skin or beauty items for personal use? Please mark all that apply.

Gay & Bi Lesbian & Bi Transgender/ Men Women Non-binary Facial moisturizer for day or night use 63% 73% 66% Eye cream/ serum to reduce puffy eyes, dark circles, fine lines 30% 22% 15% Lipstick, gloss, pencil or products specifically for the lips 11% 37% 33% Eyeliner or other eye makeup 7% 40% 36% Facial make-up, foundation, or concealer 10% 35% 32% Hair color (home or at salon) 18% 24% 22% Teeth whitener (home or at dentist) 23% 18% 11% Nail polish (clear or colors) 4% 28% 25% None of the above 26% 14% 24% Base 279 201 114

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Census 2020 Matters

Why We Ask The 2020 Census is easy. The questions are simple.

The census asks questions that provide a snapshot of the nation. Census results afect your voice in government, how much funding your community receives, and how your community plans for the future.

When you fill out the census, you help: • Determine how many seats your state gets inCongress.

• Guide how more than $675 billion in federal funding is distributedto states and communities eachyear.

• Create jobs, provide housing, prepare for emergencies, and buildschools, roads andhospitals.

POPULATION COUNT (NUMBER OF PEOPLE LIVING OR STAYING) We ask this question to collect an accurate count of the number of people at each address on Census Day, April 1, 2020. Each decade, census results determine how many seats your state gets in Congress. State and local offcials use census counts to draw boundaries for districts like congressional districts, state legislative districts and school districts.

ANY ADDITIONAL PEOPLE LIVING OR STAYING Our goal is to count people once, only once and in the right place according to where they live on Census Day. Keeping this goal in mind, we ask this question to ensure that everyone living at an address is counted.

OWNER/RENTER We ask about whether a home is owned or rented to create statistics about

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homeownership and renters. Homeownership rates serve as an indicator of the nation’s economy and help in administering housing programs and informing planning decisions.

PHONE NUMBER We ask for a phone number in case we need to contact you. We will never share your number and will only contact you if needed for offcial Census Bureau business.

Why We Ask The 2020 Census is easy. The questions are simple.

NAME We ask for names to ensure everyone in the house is counted. Listing the name of each person in the household helps respondents include all members, particularly in large households where a respondent may forget who was counted and who was not.

SEX We ask about the sex of each person to create statistics about males and females. Census data about sex are used in planning and funding government programs, and in evaluating other government programs and policies to ensure they fairly and equitably serve the needs of males and females. These statistics are also used to enforce laws, regulations and policies against discrimination in government programs and in society.

AGE AND DATE OF BIRTH We ask about age and date of birth to understand the size and characteristics of diferent age groups and to present other data by age. Local, state, tribal and federal agencies use age data to plan and fund government programs that provide assistance or services for specific age groups, such as children, working-age adults, women of childbearing age, or the older population. These statistics also help enforce laws, regula . tions and policies against age discrimination in government programs and in society.

HISPANIC, LATINO OR SPANISH ORIGIN We ask about whether a person is of Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin to create statistics

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about this ethnic group. The data collected in this question are needed by federal agencies to monitor compliance with antidiscrimination provisions, such as under the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act.

RACE We ask about a person’s race to create statistics about race and to present other statistics by race groups. The data collected in this question are needed by federal agencies to monitor compliance with anti-discrimination provisions, such as under the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act. State governments use the data to determine congressional, state and local voting districts.

WHETHER A PERSON LIVES OR STAYS SOMEWHERE ELSE Our goal is to count people once, only once and in the right place according to where they live on Census Day. Keeping this goal in mind, we ask this question to ensure individuals are not included at multiple addresses.

RELATIONSHIP We ask about the relationship of each person in a household to one central person to create estimates about families, households and other groups. Relationship data are used in planning and funding government programs that provide funds or services for families, people living or raising children alone, grandparents living with grandchildren, or other households that qualify for additional assistance.

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The 2020 Census and Confidentiality Your responses to the 2020 Census are safe, secure, and protected by federal law. Your answers can only be used to produce statistics—they cannot be used against you in any way. By law, all responses to U.S. Census Bureau household and business surveys are kept completely confidential.

Respond to the 2020 Census to shape the future.

Responding to the census helps communities get the funding they need and helps businesses make data-driven decisions that grow the economy. Census data impact our daily lives, informing important decisions about funding for services and infrastructure in your community, including health care, senior centers, jobs, political representation, roads, schools, and businesses. More than $675 billion in federal funding flows back to states and local communities each year based on census data.

Your census responses are safe and secure.

The Census Bureau is required by law to protect any personal information we collect and keep it strictly confidential. The Census Bureau can only use your answers to produce statistics. In fact, every Census Bureau employee takes an oath to protect your personal information for life. Your answers cannot be used for law enforcement purposes or to determine your personal eligibility for government benefits.

By law, your responses cannot be used against you.

By law, your census responses cannot be used against you by any government agency or court in any way—not by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), not by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), not by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and not by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The law requires the Census Bureau to keep your information confidential and use your responses only to produce statistics.

The law is clear—no personal information can be shared.

Under Title 13 of the U.S. Code, the Census Bureau cannot release any identifiable information about individuals, households, or businesses, even to law enforcement agencies.

The law states that the information collected may only be used for statistical purposes and no other purpose.

To support historical research, Title 44 of the U.S. Code allows the National Archives and Records Administration to release census records only after 72 years.

All Census Bureau staff take a lifetime oath to protect your personal information, and any violation comes with a penalty of up to $250,000 and/or up to 5 years in prison.

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There are no exceptions.

The law requires the Census Bureau to keep everyone’s information confidential. By law, your responses cannot be used against you by any government agency or court in any way. The Census Bureau will not share an individual’s responses with immigration enforcement agencies, law enforcement agencies, or allow that information to be used to determine eligibility for government benefits. Title 13 makes it very clear that the data we collect can only be used for statistical purposes—we cannot allow it to be used for anything else, including law enforcement.

It’s your choice: you can respond securely online, by mail, or by phone.

You will have the option of responding online, by mail, or by phone.

Households that don’t respond in one of these ways will be visited by a census taker to collect the information in person. Regardless of how you respond, your personal information is protected by law.

Your online responses are safe from hacking and other cyberthreats.

The Census Bureau takes strong precautions to keep online responses secure. All data submitted online are encrypted to protect personal privacy, and our cybersecurity program meets the highest and most recent standards for protecting personal information. Once the data are received, they are no longer online. From the moment the Census Bureau collects responses, our focus and legal obligation is to keep them safe.

We are committed to confidentiality.

At the U.S. Census Bureau, we are absolutely committed to keeping your responses confidential. This commitment means it is safe to provide your answers and know that they will only be used to paint a statistical portrait of our nation and communities.

Laws protecting personal census information have withstood challenges.

In 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed that even addresses are confidential and cannot be disclosed through legal discovery or the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). In 2010, the U.S. Justice Department determined that the Patriot Act does not override the law that protects the confidentiality of individual census responses. No court of law can subpoena census responses.

Learn more about the Census Bureau’s data protection and privacy program at www.census.gov/privacy.

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Grants, Legal Issues, 501(c)3

NQAPIA

National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance

that agrees to accept and oversee grant funds on behalf of another organization. ! keeping financial records ! disbursing funds in accordance with the purpose of the grant ! fulfilling reporting requirements.

! Fiscal Sponsor - a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization

corporation) whose income is tax exempt under the Internal Revenue Code. ! State Nonprofit Corporation ! Federal Tax Exemption

! 501c3 Nonprofit – a public charity (state nonprofit

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! Insurance

prudence – Common Sense

! Liabilities: ! Adherence to org. policies / By Laws ! Nothing illegal – no drugs, prostitution, crimes ! Personal liability, but org. can vote to indemnify ! To prevent liability of accidents, take reasonable care /

candidate

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! Rights: Can contract, Can purchase, Can sell, Can fundraise ! Can engage in electoral activities / endorse promote party/

Board -> Bank Account

! Not a legal “Not-for-profit” corporation ! Federal Tax ID Number (EIN) ! Written Bylaws, Financial Policies/ records, and Officers/

structure (Board/Bylaws) but has not incorporated. ! Most LGBT API organizations

UNINCORP. ASSOC. LEGAL ISSUES

National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance

! Unincorporated Association – a group that had some

NQAPIA

! Legal Structures ! Legal Rights and Responsibilities ! How to avoid getting in trouble ! Why 501c3/ benefits and drawbacks ! Alternative – NQAPIA Fiscal Sponsorship ! Funders ! Grant Fundraising Overview ! Grant Fundraising Mechanics

make informed decisions

TYPES OF ORGANIZATIONS:

Foundation Grants, Legal Liability and 501c3 Nonprofit

! GOAL: Know your rights and consequences to

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Temporary or for an event / project

But pay vendors/ reimbursements directly

Group can maintain own bank account

10% fee

Must also track own income/ expenditures

Requires MOU NQAPIA Board approval - 1 month

National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance

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Set Up

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Not Permanent - Transactional or 1 year

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Tailored for LGBT API Groups

NQAPIA FISCAL SPONSORSHIP

National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance

! Annual State Filings ! Annual “tax returns” IRS 990 Forms ! No taxes paid on income ! BUT Extensive reporting on income received ! Consequence ! Failure to file annually -> IRS revocation (after 3 years), ! State Attorney General & IRS Audit and investigation ! Of current Board and last known Board

Maintenance

! State Incorporation -> “public charity” ! Federal IRS -> 501(c)3 Tax Exemption

Formation

Incorporating as 501(c)3 Nonprofit

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National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance

National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance

QUESTIONS ???

! Annual State and Federal Filings ! Legal adherence – otherwise liability ! Duty of Care – vote, informed, read minutes, ! Duty of Loyalty – conflicts, self-interest, self dealing ! Duty of Obedience – to Bylaw and policies

Draw Backs

! State Incorporation – Limited liability of officers/ directors ! 501(c)3 Tax Exemption– ! Eligibility for foundation funding (grants) ! Individual donors get tax deduction

Benefits

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! Meeting ! Keep up to date, Not an ATM ! Pyramid – Bring in Small donors.

Cultivation

! You already have them ! No unknown rich person

Identification

Move Up Amount,

Most donors in philanthropy are individual donors

Individual Donors

National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance

! Identification – Who ! Cultivation – Meeting ! The Ask – for money ! Thank and Cultivation – Keep up to date, not an ATM ! Move up amount, New small donors ! All about the relationship

Process

! Foundations - Grants ! Corporations – Sponsorships/ In Kind product ! Individual – Personal Donation

Sources

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! Funder Identification ! Research, Meeting, Cultivation ! Alignment - your activities & foundation funding priorities ! Letter of Intent ! Meeting ! Grant Proposal: Narrative, Budget, Attachments ! Grant Agreement, then Check ! Reports: Narrative and Financial ! Time: 9 months LOI to check ! New funder – 2-3 year cultivation

The Grant Cycle

FOUNDATION FUNDRAISING

National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance

6%

Individuals + Bequests = $252.34B Corporations = $18.15B Foundations = $45.74B

U.S. TOTAL GIVING = $316.23 BILLION

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! Execution and evaluation (metrics) ! See Arcus Foundation Cindy Rizzo’s Grant writing Tips

Some bad proposals do e.g. cam recorders in Africa for human rights

! Each Foundation is Different ! Perseverance: Patient, Persistent, and Positive ! Its all relationship – Good proposal don't get funded,

Tips

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Tips Basics: 501(c)3, state incorporation, fiscal sponsor Each Foundation is Different Perseverance: Patient, Persistent, and Positive Its all about relationship - Good proposal don't get funded, Some bad proposals do E.g., cam recorders in Africa for human rights Execution and evaluation (metrics)

Legal Filings: State and Federal Reasonably prudent person

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SAMPLE LETTER OF INQUIRY National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Asian American Leaders Roundtable c/o 79-15 35th Avenue, 2C; Jackson Heights, NY 11372 • T 917.439.3158 • gmagpantay@aaldef.org April 15, 2008 2008 Grant Application Arcus Foundation 402 East Michigan Avenue Kalamazoo, MI 49007 Dear Review Committee: Please accept this letter of inquiry for a national training and issue briefing for leaders of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Asian Pacific Islander (API) organizations.

Propose, Goals, and Need A coalition of groups have come together under a new National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) to build the organizational capacity of local LGBT API groups, enhance local grassroots organizing and collaborations with allied organizations, and challenge homophobia and racism.

In this letter of inquiry we seek support for a training and issue briefing for leaders of LGBT API organizations to network, learn about current issues, share strategies, and build the infrastructure of their organizations. We hope to improve existing local programs and strengthen local organizational leadership.

APIs are among the fastest growing minority groups in the nation. More and more are coming out of the closet, yet they still face invisibility, isolation, and stereotyping. After 9/11, immigrants, especially South Asians, have come under increased targeting and racial profiling.

Two-thirds of all APIs are foreign-born and 80% speak a language other than English in their homes.

Approximately one million APIs are undocumented. Their lives involve complex intersections of being sexual, racial/ethnic, language, gender, immigrant, and economic minorities.

Unfortunately, the needs and concerns of LGBT APIs are often overlooked or marginalized. In response, many local LGBT API organizations have formed, but they all have limited capacity. In 2005, we worked with the API Wellness Center and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force on a national roundtable meeting of leaders of LGBT API organizations in Oakland, CA. The emerging national network seeks to help build local infrastructure, develop leadership, and invigorate activism and advocacy.

Project Description Towards this goal, we are planning a training and issue briefing is for leaders of established LGBT API organizations. There are 30 such organizations across the country. It would be a weekend long training.

The training would help build organizational infrastructure and capacity of established LGBT API groups across the country. Representatives of groups will share strategies on how to overcome barriers that frustrate LGBT API organizing. We will also offer culturally-specific training sessions on:

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working with the media; recruiting volunteers, expanding membership, and cultivating allies; developing leadership; organizing in languages other than English.

The issue briefing part seeks to support advocacy and organizing efforts. Many gay civil rights issues lack an Asian or immigrant analysis, and many traditional civil rights issues pertaining to race are unfamiliar to LGBT APIs. There is a dearth of LGBT involvement in traditional race and class based civil rights issues. To address this, presentations will be given on immigration reform, marriage equality, media coverage/ visibility, coming out in Asian families, and racial justice.

We also seek our own program and organizational development. The National LGBT API Alliance already has a number of project committees and at the training they will reconvene, further develop projects, identify new ideas, and plan for the months ahead. The group will also other discuss further structural issues and a national conference in 2009.

Funding and Support The starting and ending dates of the proposed grant period would be June 2008 to June 2009.

We seek $50,000 from the Arcus Foundation’s Gay and Lesbian Fund. About half would be project support for the training and issue briefing, and the other half would be for general operating support for NQAPIA. The total organization budget is about $120,000. The total project budget is about $70,000.

We hope you will look favorably upon this request. If you have any questions, please contact Glenn at 212-966-5932 or gmagpantay@aaldef.org.

Sincerely, Glenn D. Magpantay, New York, NY Mala Nagarajan, Seattle, WA Ben de Guzman, Los Angeles, CA

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SAMPLE GRANT PROPOSAL Proposal to the Woods Fund of Chicago for “Thriving Together: Queer APIs Building Community, Solidarity & Movement” A National Conference of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Asian Americans, South Asians, Southeast Asians, and Pacific Islanders August 6 to 9, 2015: Chicago, IL I. Summary Invisible to Invincible (i2i): API Pride of Chicago is working with the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQPIA) to plan an activist convening of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Asian Americans, South Asians, Southeast Asians and Pacific Islanders (API). It will be at the University of Illinois at Chicago Student Center East from August 6 to 9, 2015.

The conference aims to be a catalyst for LGBT AAPI groups and individuals to collaborate, build a political agenda, and ultimately advance social change. Organizers also hope to develop the infrastructure of LGBT API organizations and increase awareness on current issues confronting them through workshops, panels, speakers, social activities and caucuses.

The National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance is a federation of LGBT API organizations. NQAPIA seeks to builds the capacity of local LGBT API organizations, invigorates grassroots organizing, develops leadership, and challenges homophobia, transphobia, sexism, racism, and anti-immigrant bias. i2i is a community-based organization that celebrates and affirms Asians & Pacific Islanders who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Queer (LGBTQ) in the Chicago area. i2i was founded in 2005 as a multi-gender, multi-ethnic group where people of all sexual orientations and gender identities would be welcome. We strive to be a safe and inclusive space for adoptees and multiracial/multiethnic individuals. We organize monthly social events, educational programs, and community building & activism. i2i welcomes Asians, South Asians, South East Asians, & Pacific Islanders of all sexual orientations and gender identities & expressions.

We are seeking $5,000 from the Woods Fund for conference sponsorship.

II. The Need AAPIs are among the fastest growing minority groups in the Midwest and the nation and are an emerging sector of the LGBT community. More and more LGBT AAPIs are coming out, yet they still face invisibility, isolation, and stereotyping within both AAPI and LGBT communities.

LGBT AAPIs live at the intersection of being sexual, racial/ethnic, linguistic, gender, immigrant, and low-income minorities. Two-thirds of all Asian Americans are foreign-born and more than a million are undocumented. After 9/11, immigrants, particularly South Asians and Muslims, have been targets of racial profiling, detentions, and deportations. Several local LGBT AAPI organizations have formed but they have limited capacity. They face challenges with leadership burnout, balancing culturally receptive social spaces with social change work, and responding to racism in the gay community and homophobia in the AAPI community.

The conference will brings together grassroots LGBT AAPI activists from across the Greater Chicago Area, Midwest, and the nation. Prior NQAPIA conferences were held in Washington, DC in 2012 with 350 attendees and Seattle in 2009 with 250 attendees. New York’s 2004 conference of 400 people helped lay the groundwork for NQAPIA founding. NQAPAI only hosts conference one every three years and

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this is the first time the conference is being held in the Midwest to both highlight the cutting edge organizing already being done and also to involve more people in the movement for social change.

III. Conference Goals and Objectives The conference seeks to network, organize, agitate, educate, and build capacity of the LGBT AAPIs community.

Networking: Aside from NQAPIA, there are few formal mechanism to bring together grassroots LGBT APIs to exchange strategies or for groups to talk about their goals and challenges. Networking often inspires new solutions, or sometimes simply rejuvenates existing but forgotten ones. We hope to will solidify current relationships and make new connections at local, regional, national, and transnational levels.

Education: The conference seeks to increase awareness on current issues confronting LGBT APIs. Mainstream API civil rights and immigrant’s rights issues require a queer analysis. At the same time, LGBT rights require an approach that considers race, ethnicity, and immigration. We will review a range of topics including immigration reform and marriage equality.

Organizing and Agitating: Conference organizers hope the conference will help identify and build a political agenda for LGBT APIs, brainstorm ideas of action and map out existing resources in the community. This must be founded upon intersections of different forms of oppressions and multi-issue organizing.

Building Capacity: We hope to give leaders and members of LGBT API organizations tools to better achieve their goals, through workshops on board development, communication, grant writing, engaging volunteers/ members, and grassroots fundraising.

Inclusion: Conference planners are taking affirmative steps to meaningfully involve those who have been traditionally underrepresented, including women, people of transgender experience, young people, Pacific Islanders, and activists outside of the Coasts as well as to ensure the conference is pan-Asian. Organizers will target outreach and we hope to provide travel scholarships to ensure inclusion.

Overall, we hope to press a progressive agenda that will bring all LGBT racial and ethnic minority groups into the full fold of society, the LGBT movement, and the API community. We seek the transformation of institutions that discriminate and stratify people based on their immigration status, nativity or wealth.

IV. Activities/Programming There will be workshops, panel discussions, presentations, caucuses, speakers, and performance art. To maximize community involvement there is an open Request for Proposed (RFP) for conference workshops, arts/ cultural programs, networking caucuses, and pre-conference convenings. Proposals are due by February 23.

We hope for a wide array of topics on politics, organizing, skills, arts and culture, health and wellness, and others. We will work to ensure that presenters are balanced in terms of gender/gender-identity, geography, and ethnicity. Caucuses will provide attendees with opportunities to network with others in their regions or affinities, such as women, transgender, students/youth, bisexuals, South Asians, polyamorous, etc.

There will be a strategic General Membership Meeting at the end of the conference to discuss next steps and organizational business. There will also be time to give feedback and evaluate the conference.

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Social and cultural activities are planned to recharge ourselves, connect with others and recognize our cultures. We are planning an evening cultural program featuring Queer API poets, writers, and performers and a banquet dinner dance featuring a keynote address. The dinner will celebrate the Community Catalyst Awardees. This dinner dance also allows young people an equal opportunity socialize with other conference attendees who are often left out when others “go to the bars.”

There will also be pre-conference Convenings for special populations on Thursday. Past convenings have included parents, South Asian, Pacific Islanders, people of faith, and students.

V. Organizational Structure We hope to be transparent and inclusive in planning the conference. The majority of the work and decision-making will be centered in a Conference Planning Committees made up of both local and national representatives. Anyone can join. The Committee will coordinate all logistics, housing, recruitment, social activities, fundraising, and programming. i2i is being supported by NQAPIA staff, Co-Director Glenn D. Magpantay and Organizing Director Pabitra Benjamin, as well as a local conference-planning consultant. i2i is also planning to work with several organization on programming, most of whom have already signaled their interest n helping with the conference, including: • • • • • • • •

Trikone-Chicago Asian Health Coalition of Illinois Asian American Justice Center South Asian American Policy & Resource Institute Korean Resource and Cultural Center OCA (formerly the Organization of Chinese Americans) Chicago Chapter Equality Illinois Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP at UIC)

V. Financial Information A. Expenses There are five categories of expenses: materials for the conference and promotion, food, location costs, and other administrative expenses.

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Materials for the conference include conference packets that will be full of information and resources and a printed program book. Materials for promotion include a save the date postcard and conference brochure with registration form.

We will also provide strategically scheduled meals. Breakfasts will be served concurrently with specific programs to bolster turnout.

Room costs include fees for room reservations and audio/visual equipment.

Expenses for administration include photocopying of planning materials, website costs, and postage for mailings. We hope to work with certain publications for free advertising.

We will provide registration scholarships and travel assistance and housing accommodations for those with limited income and from underrepresented groups.

Surplus funds will be used to support agreed upon outcomes and next steps. This may include supporting advocacy campaigns or smaller networking meetings.

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B. Income There is a registration fee most to cover food, meeting room rentals, and audio/visual. Additional income will come from conference sponsors, program book advertisers, supplemental tickets, exhibitors, fundraising pitches and foundation grants for travel and housing and expenses However, there will be suggested donations at the Friday night performance and Saturday night dance party.

We are exploring support from the following foundations: Polk Brothers, Alphawood Foundation, Bush Foundation, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, Gill Foundation, Ford Foundation, Four Freedoms Fund, Resist, Inc. and others We are also seeking support from certain corporations, including United Airlines, DiscoverCard, Verizon, Wells Fargo Bank, Caesars Entertainment, and corporate law firms. We have a process to screen corporate funders and will not take any money from companies that are targeted for organized boycotts or has engaged in egregious exploitation or discrimination of workers.

C. Amount Requested We are seeking $5,000 from the Woods Fund for conference sponsorship. i2i is fiscally sponsored by NQAPIA a tax-exempt, 501(c)3, nonprofit organization.

Attached is a detailed budget.

VI. Evaluation/ Impact on the Community A next steps and evaluation session is planned on the final day of the conference. During this time, conference participants will respond to a written questionnaire as well as give oral feedback.

There will be at least two formal de-briefing sessions. The Planning Committee and NQAPIA Board and staff will have structured sessions surveying positive elements, drawbacks, and make suggestions for improvement, as well as next steps and ways to capitalize and maintain the momentum, as well as harness the inspiration.

As an outcome, we hope for concrete program planning and agenda setting. There will be a strategic NQAPIA General Membership Meeting to explore collaborative projects and discuss next steps.

NQAPIA has a micro-grant program where we support LGBT AAPI groups to do outreach at non-LGBT AAPI cultural festivals and ethnic events, such as Lunar New Year, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in May, nation-specific independence days; and other ethnic specific events. Already so many groups march in LGBT Pride in June. We also need to think bigger about being out as LGBTs in our own ethnic communities. We hope to see more applications of groups from the Midwest.

In addition, we hope to identify concrete ways in which NQAPIA, as a federation of LGBT AAPI organizations that is missioned to support and grow local organizations, can support local work. Past ideas have been to provide fiscal sponsorships and an organizational tool kit. We are hoping to find new programs and tools to grow and equip local activism and advocacy.

We hope to build more knowledge of people of transgender experience and in international issues. We will have two plenaries on these topics. We hope to build more allies to create LGBT AAPI spaces that are inclusive of transgender people in our own communities. We also hope activists will connect with other struggles for LGBT equality around the world which, for many LGBT AAPIs, is “back home.� We

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will interview attendees after the conference to see how they have concretely expressed this solidarity and allyship.

Finally, as with any conference, we hope to inspire, empower, and invigorate a new cadre of LGBT AAPI leaders, especially in the Midwest and Illinois. There will be time to give feedback and evaluate the conference. We also ask how participants plan to use that they learned at the conference in their work and in efforts for social justice.

VIII. Attachments A. Project Budget B. NQAPIA IRS 501(c)3 determination letter C. Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement Letter between NQAPIA and i2i IX. For More Information, Contact: Glenn D. Magpantay NQAPIA Co-Director of Development glenn_magpantay@nqapia.org 917-439-3158

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Conference Estimated Budget INCOME: $ 31,250 – Registration fees ($125 x 250 people, Advertised registration $225) $ 17,500 – Sponsors (corporations, nonprofits, and government sources) $ 3,000 – Program book advertisements $ 2,500 – Catalyst Awards Extra local Tickets (50 at $50pp) $ 4,000 – Fundraising pitches $ 1,000 – exhibitors (4 x $250 each) $ 50,000 – foundation grants for conference expenses $ 109,250 total income EXPENSES: $ 23,750 – meals (2 breakfasts at $18, 1 dinner at $35, 1 brunch at $24) $95 x 300 $ 10,000 – space rental and AV $ 5,000 – expenses for accessibility, stipends for performers, photographer $ 8,000 – conference consultant $ 1,500 – conference graphic designer (logo, postcard, brochure, program book) $ 15,000 – housing and travel for organizations and underrepresented groups $ 3,000 – housing and travel for staff for conference coordination/ recruitment $ 5,000 – printing (brochures, postcards, program book, Catalyst booklet, prospectus) $ 1,500 – postage and delivery $ 3,000 – supplies and conference bags $ 2,000 – stipends for performers, documentation, other $ 20,000 – NQAPIA staff support (salaries and benefits) $ 10,000 – Overhead (internet, website, phone, bookkeeper, audit, office) $ 107,750 total expenses BALANCE $ 1,500 Conference Supporters, Amount, and Likelihood Woods Fund $5,000 Polk Brothers $2,000 Alphawood Foundation $20,000 Astraea Lesbian Foundation $1,000 Gill Foundation $5,000 Ford Foundation $5,000 for travel / overhead Four Freedoms Fund $5,000 for travel / overhead Resist, Inc. $4,000 for accessibility United Airlines $1,000 for travel Verizon $1,000 Wells Fargo Bank $5,000 Caesars Entertainment, $5,000 Office of Minority Health $15,000

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1. Program Planning-Good Proposals: programs and organizations designed with clear goals and measurable objectives, timelines, budgets and work plans easily translate to good proposals.

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2. Make Sure You Can Accomplish What You Propose: don’t chase funds that are not compatible with your mission and strategic direction; make sure you are not promising something you cannot deliver or in a timeframe that is impossible; don’t ask for an amount that is unreasonably high for that specific funder, but don’t lowball your cost estimates either.

3. Guidelines, Guidelines, Guidelines: a foundation’s guidelines should act as your road map to proposal preparation, guiding both your proposal’s content and its format. Remember: if you’ve seen one foundation, you’ve seen one foundation!

4. The Four C’s – Clear, Concise, Connected, Creative: a. make sure the proposal is clearly written and not full of the “jargon” of your field; define your terms; b. be concise and try not to repeat the same thing over and over; you can include longer pieces of information (e.g., detailed descriptions of other programs in your organization that are not the subject of the proposal) as attachments to the proposal rather than as part of the main narrative; c. connect with your audience (i.e., the funder); use language that will appeal to that specific funder (e.g., you might talk about “investment in the community” to a corporate or business funder and you might talk about “empowering marginalized communities” with a social change funder); d. be creative: tell a story and let your writing flow; get inspired by the visionaries in your organization; remember, this is NOT government grantwriting.

5. Use Statistics and Hyperbole When Appropriate, but Don’t Overdo Them: data and statistics, whether about your organization or the population/ community you serve, can be helpful in setting forth your statement of need; hyperbole—stating that your organization is the “biggest” the “first” the “most accomplished”—has its place as well. Use both strategically, but don’t overwhelm the funder with either.

6. Anything That Raises A Flag Should Be Explained: if your organization is having problems, if something unexpected has occurred (e.g., your executive director is resigning), be proactive about telling the funder outright. This way, you are in control of communicating the information and stating how your organization will be responding. Don’t let a funder find something out from the community, another funder or, especially, from the daily newspaper.

7. The Organization Description Section Should Convey a Sense of Stability (or Innovation!), Leadership, Expertise and Excitement: explain why your organization is well positioned to take on the work for which you are seeking funding; explain why you are the best organization to do this work; explain where you fit with respect to other organizations in your field; let the funder know with whom you collaborate and that you work and play well with others.

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8. The Statement of Need Should Be An Opportunity to Educate the Funder: place your work within a context; focus on the specific geographic need that you will be addressing (e.g., for a teen suicide prevention program in your city, provide information and data about teen suicide rates in your area as opposed to the national rates); explain the extent to which more funding can help you meet increasing demand.

9. The Program Description Should Flow from the Statement of Need: make sure that the program you are proposing connects back to the need you have defined; include measurable (i.e., quantifiable) objectives.

10. Know the Difference Between Outputs and Outcomes: organizing three educational workshops serving 90 people is not an outcome of your project, it is an output; the outcome is increased skill and knowledge.

11. In the Evaluation Section, You Are Stating How You Will Know if the Project is Successful: don’t be afraid of evaluation; it doesn’t require a PhD. Just tell the funder what you will be measuring and how you will be measuring it. Remember, process evaluation measures how well you carried out your work plan (“we held 3 workshops that served 90 people”) while outcome evaluation measures whether your activity made a difference (“90 percent of our participants were still practicing safer sex after six months”).

12. Don’t Forget to Connect Your Request with the Funder’s Priorities: you can do this in an introductory or concluding section or in the cover letter.

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15. A Funding Plan Explains How You Will Be Raising the Remainder of Funds Needed: show each anticipated source category (e.g., individuals, special events, grants) and detail where proposals have been or will be submitted.

16. Put Your Attachments In A Logical Order or In the Order Specified in the Funder’s Guidelines 17. Use Simple Stapling or Binding Clips Instead of Expensive Packaging 18. Re-Read the Funder’s Guidelines to Make Sure You Have Included Everything and Have Complied with Production Requirements: including the number of copies required.

19. Remember…Someone Has to Read This: make sure the document has readable font sizes, decent margins, numbered pages, no misspellings, and the name of the Foundation to which you are applying (NOT the name of the Foundation you sent something off to last week!).

20. Have Someone Outside Your Field Read Your Proposal: give it to your best friend, your sister or significant other. See if they understand it, if it is free of typos and jargon. Remember the funder may not be immersed in your area of work and may be learning about your field for the first time.

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NQAPIA Fiscal Sponsorship of Local LGBT AAPI Organizations The National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) is a federation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) organizations. We seek to build the organizational capacity of local LGBT AAPI groups, develop leadership, promote visibility, educate our community, enhance grassroots organizing, expand collaborations, and challenge homophobia and racism. NQAPIA is incorporated as a nonprofit tax-exempt IRS 501(c)3 organization.

To support local LGBT AAPI organizations, NQAPIA will provide limited 501(c)3 fiscal sponsorship for local groups. The fiscal sponsorship relationship is transactional (one-time or asneeded), not a long term arrangement.

I. OVERVIEW Fiscal Sponsorship for Foundation Grants NQAPIA will fiscally sponsor local LGBT AAPI organizations to pursue a specific foundation grant or major donation which must go to a 501(c)3 tax exempt nonprofit.

This funding should support a specific project, activity or event. NQAPIA will accept the funding on the organization’s behalf and will directly pay for all of the organization’s expenses associated with the grant. The organization should identify the funder and develop activities to be undertaken under the grant, as well as a proposed budget. For the grant final report, the organization is responsible for developing the narrative of activities and NQAPIA will develop the financial reports.

NQAPIA and the local organization will enter into a Memorandum of Understanding for the fiscal sponsorship. For the donor foundation, NQAPIA will co-sign the grant agreement letter on behalf of the local organization. As the fiscal sponsor, NQAPIA will also develop the final budget report and will fulfill all the IRS reporting requirements. An administrative fee of 1015% will be assessed, depending on the grant size and reporting requirements.

This is not a permanent or long-term arrangement. It is provided to local LGBT AAPI groups on an as-needed basis for when funding opportunities arise and a 501c3 tax exemption is required.

While NQAPIA assume the financial administration of the grant monies, the organization is still responsible for its overall financial oversight, bookkeeping, and maintenance of its own finances.

Tax Deductible Donations The fiscal sponsorship also applies to major donors who seek to make a financial contribution to a local organization and would like to receive a tax deduction for their contribution. NQAPIA will provide the acknowledgment letter and comply with annual IRS reporting requirements.

The funding will then go to the organization, less an administrative fee of 10%.

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II. DETAILS Items for Fiscal Sponsorship This fiscal sponsorship arrangement is to help local organizations secure foundation grants and/or tax deductible donations to execute a specific, short-term project, activity or event.

Examples include, but are not limited to: • Strategic Planning • Translation services • Design, development and production of materials (website, brochure, flyer, poster, newsletter) • Tabling fees for outreach at cultural festivals, parades, LGBT Pride • Fees for advertisements • One time fundraisers • Conferences, workshops, trainings • Peer-support groups • Political mobilization • Needs assessment Budget items may include consultant fees, meeting expenses for food, room and space rental fees, tabling and parade fees, printing, translation, web hosting, supplies, materials, minor equipment, travel expenses.

NQAPIA Responsibilities In this fiscal sponsorship arrangement, NQAPIA will: • accept the funding on the organization’s behalf • directly pay for all the organization’s expenses associated with the grant (consultants, printing, translation, room rental and other fees, food, supplies) • develop the final financial report to the funder at the end of the grant term • submit the final narrative report of activities, written by the organization, to the funder at the end of the grant term • fulfill the nonprofit reporting requirements to the IRS, i.e. the 990 form • adhere to mutually agreed upon deadlines and accomplish tasks in a timely and professional manner.

Local Organizational Responsibilities In this fiscal sponsorship arrangement, the local organization must: • identify the funder • develop the grant proposal, listing activities to be undertaken under the grant and a proposed budget • execute the project, activity or event (see above for ideal items for fiscal sponsorship) • develop the grant final narrative report, detailing all activities that occurred under the grant and a listing of expenses • adhere to mutually agreed upon deadlines and accomplish tasks in a timely and professional manner.

Other Benefits NQAPIA can also provide the following services on an as-needed basis: • Liability insurance for events, naming the vendor and local organization (as a member of NQAPIA) as insured parties.

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Costs An administrative fee of 10% will be assessed for grants and individual contributions. Credit card donations collected by NQAPIA have an additional 3% and 40¢ processing fee per transaction.

III. AGREEMENTS Attached is the Memorandum of Agreement that must be signed by an organizational representative and NQAPIA. IV. CONTACTS AND QUESTIONS Organizations interested in fiscal sponsorship should contact Glenn D. Magpantay at NQAPIA at glenn_magpantay@nqapia.org or 917-439-3158.

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Fiscal Sponsor Memorandum of Understanding SAMPLE I. General Understandings This Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is entered between the National Queer Asian & Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) as the fiscal sponsor and the organization _________.

The organization _________ seeks to raise funds in the amount of _______, for (state purpose or intent) _____________.

NQAPIA is a federation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) organizations. NQAPIA supports the building of the organizational capacity of local LGBT AAPI groups, developing leadership, promoting visibility, educating the community, enhancing grassroots organizing, expanding collaborations, and challenging homophobia and racism.

NQAPIA is a bona fide nonprofit tax-exempt corporation. NQAPIA agrees to serve as the fiscal sponsor for this grant.

The intended purpose of the grant shall be understood as a project of NQAPIA for the specific benefit of the organization _________..

II. NQAPIA Shall: • Track funds designated for this project and accept tax-deductible contributions on behalf of the fiscally sponsored organization.

• Donors must specify that the donation is “In Honor Of…” and write the organization “_________..”

• Disburse the funding and make programmatic payments in accordance with its intended purpose.

• Fulfill any and all 501(c)3 reporting obligations including financial accounting and donor recognition.

• File all federal tax reporting obligations under Internal Revene Code 501(c)3 for taxexemption and all state registration requirements in accordance with the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law of the State of New York.

• Provide insurance coverage of the event through the Tides Center.

III. The Organization ________ Shall: • Report to prospective donors this fiscal sponsorship arrangement by listing the event “as a fiscally sponsored project of NQAPIA”.

• Track all donations it collects.

• Coordinate with NQAPIA on its preferred method of disbursing the funds.

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Provide any and all receipts and documentation for the disbursement of the funding.

Provide to NQAPIA activity reports, event details, and evaluations of the activity in a timely manner.

IV. Other Understandings NQAPIA shall be entitled to a 10% fiscal sponsorship fee for administration.

This is a limited fiscal sponsorship arrangement for the purpose of administering this program of the organization. NQAPIA does not assume full and complete fiscal sponsorship of the organization itself for all its finances and other contributions.

No changes in the purpose for which tax-deductible contributions provided is allowed.

Nothing in this MOU shall constitute the naming of NQAPIA or the organization as an agent or legal representative of the other for any other purpose except as specifically set forth herein.

This MOU shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

IV. Agreement This Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is agreed to by the following on behalf of their respective organizations.

For National Queer Asian & Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) as fiscal sponsor: Signature

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Power, Privilege and Consent

On Sexual Freedom, Consent, and Practice “The act of communities coming together to take interpersonal or intimate forms of violence more seriously can in and of itself make healing more possible.�

- Mimi Kim, Creative Interventions We believe in liberation for all queer and trans people.

We fight for the rights and dignity of immigrant and Muslim communities.

We value sexual freedom and autonomy over our own bodies.

We challenge rape culture.

We listen to survivors and honor their experiences.

We recognize that anyone can be a survivor, and anyone can enact harm and abuse.

We see ourselves as part of the intergenerational work of breaking the cycles of violence.

We have seen and experienced harm from police and prisons.

We know that solutions come from the people most impacted.

We believe in the power and resilience of our communities.

NQAPIA recognizes that sexual and domestic violence exist in all cultures and harm all communities, and is rooted in the same power structures that uphold violence against trans and queer people. As part of our commitment to queer and trans liberation, we seek to deepen our understanding of how this impacts our people and our movements. We are building our skills to support survivors and respond to harm, starting with Growing Home 2018.

As queer and trans APIs, we encounter and experience state violence through anti- immigrant and islamophobic policies and institutions that target our families. Furthermore, violence against queer and trans people is used to justify these policies and increase policing, incarceration and militarization in our communities. Community accountability directly challenges institutions that harm our communities and separate us from our loved ones. We are helping to build an alternative to systems that rely on police, prisons, and detention centers to respond to interpersonal violence-- systems that further perpetuate harm to our communities. We want to create more options for survivors in ways that build our power and resilience.

All of us have either experienced and/or been impacted by intimate forms of violence. As a community, we can examine the ways they show up in our relationships with each other, knowing that anyone can enact violence as well as be a survivor. We know that survivors of domestic and sexual violence are often further marginalized when communities ignore or minimize the harm they’ve experienced. Our histories include often invisibilized gender violence

within our movements. Many survivors have paid a high cost to break their silence, some made to feel like they are no longer welcome or valued. We cannot continue to let this happen in our movements. We want to create a space that centers survivor voices and honors and validates their experiences.

This conference is a gathering of many people from different backgrounds and experiences, including youth and elders, trans and gender nonconforming people, and sick and disabled people. We want everyone to feel safe in exploring their sexuality, with the understanding that the power dynamics that exist within our organizations and relationships will also be present.

We encourage sexual freedom that is rooted in respect, choice, and honoring the humanity of everyone involved. We support young people in being their whole selves and experiencing freedom in their bodies and self- determination in their choices. We value clear and enthusiastic consent when it comes to sex, and we want to be able to practice that in all our interactions.

Growing Home is building a culture of care and accountability in our relationships with each other. There are many ways to do this, including recognizing when harm is happening around you and taking steps to intervene. It also recognizing our own harmful behaviors, and checking in with our friends about how we choose to engage in practicing our sexual freedom and autonomy. We want people in this conference to feel safe and seen. Together, we will grow our skills and support each other in deepening our understanding of sexual freedom.

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Building a Culture of Care and Consent We are building a culture of care and consent at Growing Home by encouraging participants to practice the following: -

Check in with yourself about what you need to fully participate, including - access needs i.e. food, rest, bathrooms, translation, materials in different formats, scent free space (You can also contact the Access Coordinator, MLin at 408-966-0879) - hugs and casual touch - activities that are a growing edge - sobriety (for yourself or others) - taking space vs. making space for others - romantic/sexual interactions

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Practice talking to friends and colleagues about the things listed above, and asking for the support you need.

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Ask a friend or colleague to be your “accountability buddy” for the conference. You can check in with them at the beginning about how you want to be supported.

Possible scenarios: “I am looking for folks to flirt with, and possibly hook up with at the conference. I haven’t always been good at giving and getting clear consent, especially when I am drinking.

Can I keep you updated about possible hookups and can we check in before and after?”

“I love giving hugs and being affectionate with people, but I want to practice asking beforehand. Can you let me know how I’m doing throughout the conference?”

If you experience or encounter harm, or have a safety concern, please contact any of the following: - MLin, Access Team, contact info - Sasha, Staff- contact info - Stan, Board Member- contact into If an incident of *interpersonal harm is reported, NQAPIA will follow the following protocol: *sexual harassment, assault or abuse, domestic or dating violence, racist or transphobic actions, etc.

Note: Safety team and staff will be made aware of any report and will respond as a team, unless otherwise requested.

1. A member of the safety team will talk to the person who reported the incident and gather more information. If possible, they will talk to the person who experienced the harm that occurred.

2. Take steps to address that person’s immediate safety. Please see Safety Plan document, page 5 about 9-1-1 calls and other emergency numbers. This step may also include calling the person’s emergency contact or if this person is under 18, calling a parent/ guardian. NQAPIA team will assess the severity of the incident and whether the person who caused harm should be asked to leave.

3. Check in with the person who experienced harm about their safety and self/ community care needs to be able to stay in the conference, including the following options: a. A facilitated conversation between the person who experienced harm and the person/ people who caused harm. Person who experienced harm can communicate needs directly. The conversation will be facilitated by Sasha W. b. Member of NQAPIA safety team can talk with the person/ people who caused harm, and can communicate any needs/ requests from the person who experienced harm. c. Other?? d. None, if that is what person who experienced harm wishes to do.

4. Make an assessment about whether it is possible for both parties to stay at the conference, and make adjustments as needed. If not, NQAPIA will ask the person who caused harm to leave.

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Communication, Conflict Resolution, Feedback

How to Be Persuasive 1. Be yourself. If you're uncomfortable doing this, say so. If one part of what you're pitching is more attractive than another part, to you personally, admit it. You don't need to act the role of a stereotyped "salesperson;" just let yourself be who you are, caring about what you're inviting them to.

2. Make sure this is an OK time to talk. It's basically a waste of breath to talk with someone who is preoccupied with worries or homework or a date or getting to work. Ask if they have a few minutes, and if not, ask for a better time.

3. Keep checking in to see how they are receiving your message. Ask, "Does that make sense?"

"Do you think that matters?" "Can you picture yourself joining us?" "What hesitations would you have about it?" "What would you need to know for this to make sense to you?" "How can I persuade you to come with us for this action?" Remember, the beautiful thing about you talking with them (instead of their getting a leaflet about it) is that you can pay attention to them, to their interests and concerns.

4. If there's stuff you don't know, acknowledge it and offer to get back to them with the information. Your honesty makes you more trustworthy than trying to gloss over something.

5. Ahead of time make it OK with you for the person to say no. Figure that there are certain to be "No's" and getting a "No" moves you on to someone more likely to say "Yes." Remember, they are not saying "No" to your worthiness as a person; they are just saying "No" to this project.

When you know you can accept a "No," you more likely will be able to relax and enjoy it.

6. Remember that they haven't said "No" until they've said it. When they leave the door open by saying "I'll think about it," "I might be busy that day," "That's not the kind of thing that grabs me," etc., keep the door open yourself. Try saying things like "How can I get more information to you to help your thinking?" "As you think about it, what might tilt you in favor of doing it?"

"When will you know more about your schedule -- would it be OK if I got back to you?" "I'd love to have the chance to persuade you that this could interest you -- does any part of it make sense to you?" etc.

7. Thank them for their time whether they've said yes or no. Today's nay-sayer may be tomorrow's yea-sayer for another action or event, partly depending on whether they felt accepted by you for where they are. On campuses, for example, the biggest obstacle to social action spreading among students may be the righteous attitude of some of the spreaders. You don't need to be righteous -- the cause is just. You can just be yourself.

By George Lakey, Training for Change Training for Change • www.TrainingForChange.org

How to Build Safety in a Group Note: this is different from building comfort. If the facilitator and group do a good job of building safety, then the participants will frequently go out of their comfort zone in order to stretch and grow. Allowing feelings of discomfort can, therefore, be one sign of growing safety in a group.  Allow the group to experience common ground  Use small groups frequently  Use a buddy system, or small ongoing support groups  Ask participants to do goal-setting and goal-sharing; check in on goals periodically  Give permission for a range of self-disclosure -- it's OK for each person to set own level  As facilitator, give warm attention  Show the group that you value safety  Give support for forgiveness, including self-forgiveness. It encourages risk-taking  Do "noticings" (non-judgemental, non-evaluative observations)  Invite the group to take care of the whole group (although not to be "care-takers," engaged in rescues and fix-its)  Model OK-ness (for example, rather than exhibiting anxiety because a participant is angry, emoting, or in crisis)  Remember the option of going one-on-one with anxious participants, for example during break, or coaching his/her buddy to reach out to anxious one  Design activities for an alternating rhythm of differentiation and integration.

Differentiation may mean the experience of individuality or the experience of a subgroup ("We people of color"... "We men" ... "We young adults"... "We senior staff"...

"We new board members")  Use structure (like precise formulations of sentence completions, or clear and concrete group agreements/ground rules), and rigor (like precise amounts of time for break, facilitator does what s/he says s/he will do, etc.)  Invite participants to take care of themselves (group agreements like "Use everything for your own advancement;" "Take care of yourself so you can take care of others.")  Acknowledge the margins as well as the mainstream of the group

Getting Help Setting Goals for Future Skill-Building and Making Use of Coaching Getting help can be hard. It runs counter to many of cultural values: independence, individuality, personal control, self-help, competition, to name a few. Activists tend to focus on skills on help others – but spend less emphasis on our own development.

Getting help is necessary. If we are to grow, learn, not burn-out, and win then we need help. In this tool we create some space and time for people to think through how can they continue to learn and get help.

HOW TO LEAD Break into groups of four. Every group will have a set of post-its and a blank sheet of newsprint.

Together brainstorm the kinds of skills you will need in your context, write each skill on a post it and put it on the newsprint. It’s okay to list skills that are already your strengths and skill that you are still working to improve.

Be as specific as you can, for example, if the skills is “writing”, try to make it more specific to what kind of writing you will be doing most of – sending out emails to supporters, writing newsletters, writing press releases, grants because each of these things requires its own kind of expertise. If the skill is something like “outreach,” try to think about what kinds of settings you will be doing outreach, is it door-knocking, making phone calls, attending coalition meetings, etc, and what skills would help you be better at each of those things.

Once you have a good list generated, pick three or four that seem most urgent to you right now or that you’d like to be focusing more energy on improving.

Now, pair up with someone in your small group. Each of you will be given time to get support from the other to talk through these three things:  Who do you know that can support you to learn/develop these skills? (This can include the trainers in this workshop who will be working with you as mentors, other participants you’ve met here or people outside this room who are a part of your network?  What is a specific request you can make to those people that would support you to learn those skills?  What can you do between now and the next training to take a step towards working on those goals.

In large group, debrief. What is the value of asking for help? How can that be seen as a skill itself? What are ways we show resistance to asking for help? What holds us back from seeking help from others?

by Nico Amador, Training for Change Training for Change • www.TrainingForChange.org

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National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) compiled a set of resources, arranged by

media, regarding faith affirming resources for LGBTQ Buddhist Asian Americans, South Asians, Southeast Asians, and Pacific Islanders:

ARTICLES Hy, V. (2017, Aug 18). Buddhism, diaspora and the challenge of faith in queer communities. http://archermagazine.com.au/2017/08/buddhism-diaspora-queer-communities/ Iwohara, J. (2018, March 2) Affirmed by Primal Vow. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/affirmed-primal-vow-john-iwohara/ (2018, Sep 30) Ichimi 2018 Opening Message (LGBTQ Seminar at GBC). https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ichimi-2018-opening-message-john-iwohara/ Wilson, J. (2017, Jun 27). A Big Gay History of Same-sex Marriage in the Sangha. https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/big-gay-history-same-sex-marriage-sangha/ Human Rights Campaign | Buddhism Resources https://www.hrc.org/resources/stances-of-faiths-on-lgbt-issues-buddhism

BOOKS Devdutt Pattanaik I Am Divine. So Are You: How Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and Hinduism Affirm the Dignity of Queer Identities and Sexualities. Element. 2017 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077N6V411/r.

Larry Yang Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community. Somerville: Wisdom Publications. 2017. https://www.amazon.com/Awakening-Together-Spiritual-InclusivityCommunity/dp/161429351 1 ORGANIZATIONS Buddhist Churches of America http://www.buddhistchurchesofamerica.org/ The BCA is a Shin Buddhist organization that has lobbied for the Boy Scouts of America to abandon homophonic policies and has presented pro-LGBTQ+ seminars such as “Embraced by the Heart of Amida Buddha: The LGBTQ Community & Shin Buddhism.” The organization continues to promote a pro-LGBTQ+ perspective with Buddhism.

Soka Gakkai International http://www.sgi-usa.org/ Soka Gakkai International-USA (SGI-USA) is the most diverse Buddhist community in the United States with more than 500 chapters and some 100 centers throughout the country.

SGI-USA is part of the larger SGI network, which comprises more than 12 million people in 192 countries and territories around the world. SGI members base their practice on the Lotus Sutra and Nichiren Buddhism, which teaches that each person has within the courage, wisdom and compassion to face and surmount any of life’s challenges. Based on core Buddhist principles such as respecting the dignity of human life and the interconnectedness of self and the environment, SGI engages in various peace activities, including human rights education, the movement to abolish nuclear weapons and efforts to promote sustainable development.

Trans Buddhists https://transbuddhists.org/ VIDEOS Equality Hawaii | Engaged Buddhism https://vimeo.com/37489800

National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) compiled a set of resources, arranged by

media, regarding faith affirming resources for for queer, Christian Asian Americans:

ARTICLES Abes, E.S and Kasch, D. (2007). Using Queer Theory to Explore Lesbian College Students’ Multiple Dimensions of Identity. Journal of College Student Development 48(6), 619-636.

(Catholic) https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d048/3662f448dbc415286a1f216650d0c902982d.pdf Bhattar, R. and Victoria, N. (2007). Rainbow Rice: A Dialogue between two Asian American Gay Men in Higher Education and Student Affairs. The Vermont Connection. Vol. 28.

Burlington, VT. (Catholic) http://www.uvm.edu/~vtconn/v28/Bhattar_Victoria.pdf Cheng, P.S. (2018, May 5). Queer Asian Discipleship. https://www.inheritancemag.com/stories/queer-asian-discipleship DiCamillo, N. (2018, Feb 15). Queer, Asian, and an Evangelical’s Daughter https://www.gaycitynews.nyc/stories/2018/4/w29554-queer-asian-evangelical-pastorsdaughter-2 018-02-15.html Kuruvilla, C. (2018, Jun 26). As A Queer Indian-American Christian, This Priest Had To Create Her Own Path. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-its-like-to-be-a-queer-indian-americanpriest_n_5b21783d e4b0bbb7a0e449e7 Louie, B. (n.d.) Resurrection and the Deconstruction of my Faith. http://thesaltcollective.org/resurrection-deconstruction-faith/ Queer Asian American Christianity: Refusal, Resistance, and Resurrection http://thesaltcollective.org/queer-asian-american-christianity-refusal-resistance-resurrection-

three-part-series/ http://thesaltcollective.org/queer-asian-american-christianity-refusal-resistance-resurrectionpart-2/ Additional writing and media pieces: https://biancaml.com/writing/ Ngu, S. (2018, May 5). Redefining Family. https://www.inheritancemag.com/stories/redefining-family Uyeda Fong, K. (n.d.) An Unexpected Advocate: One Pastor’s Calling to Love Openly Gay Christians. https://www.inheritancemag.com/series/an-unexpected-advocate • Please contact SuJanne Tam (sjtam@live.com) if you are interested in a Chinese translated version of the articles.

Coming Home: To Faith, To Spirit, To Self https://www.hrc.org/resources/coming-home-tofaith-to-spirit-to-self Network on Religion and Justice | Articles and Sermons http://www.netrj.org/resources_sermons.html Reformation Project • Making the Connection: LGBTQ Inclusion and Racial Justice o https://drive.google.com/file/d/16MQhUkgxK _ykMo4I1cSiOwid032R3at/view • The Bible and Same-sex Relationships (Chinese and English) o https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EZmJBBWFjzDxuVMp6MEhbt22Yius1QD/view o https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZlvC4uC1NLUJPALizisK31Up7kduSh4F/view • The Bible and Transgender Inclusion (Chinese and English) o https://drive.google.com/file/d/14rXjchFAjMett2j3iz8lIsvBNOwT7mLn/view o https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S4JZEEGNIY0ptuVsGh-y2tQdtixx7rQ2/view • The Inclusion Continuum (Chinese) o https://drive.google.com/file/d/1whCNI2x1XxWBxV4h3aqLG5vaoZmgY40v/v iew San Gabriel Valley API PFlag’s Faith Resources | “What does the Bible Say?” https://www.sangabrielvalleyapipflag.com/on-faith.html BOOKS Deborah Jian Lee Rescuing Jesus: How People of Color, Women, and Queer Christians are Reclaiming Evangelicalism. Boston: Beacon Press, 2015. https://www.amazon.com/Rescuing-Jesus-Christians-ReclaimingEvangelicalism/dp/080707507 8

Jeff Chu Does Jesus Really Love Me? A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America.

New York: HarperCollins, 2014. https://www.amazon.com/Does-Jesus-Really-Love-Christians/dp/0062049747 Joshua Moon Johnson Beyond Surviving: From Religious Oppression to Queer Activism. Palm Desert: Purple Books, 2012. https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Surviving-Religious-Oppression-Activism/dp/0985766131 Lei Ming with Lura Frazey Life Beyond My Body: A Transgender Journey to Manhood in China. Oakland: Transgress Press, 2016. https://www.amazon.com/Life-Beyond-My-Body-Transgender/dp/0986084484 Mihee Kim-Kort Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2018. https://www.amazon.com/Outside-Lines-Embracing-Queerness-Transform/dp/1506408966/ Ngeo Boon Lin Gay is Ok! A Christian Perspective. Petaling Jaya: Gerakbudaya Enterprise, 2013. https://www.amazon.com/Gay-Christian-Perspecitve-NgeoBoon/dp/9832344190 Rev. Dr. Patrick S. Cheng From Sin to Amazing Grace: Discovering the Queer Christ. New York: Seabury Books, 2012. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1596272384 Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology. New York: Seabury Books, 2011. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1596271329 Rainbow Theology: Bridging Race, Sexuality, and Spirit. New York: Seabury Books, 2013. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1596272414 BLOGS That Gayasian Rev https://twitter.com/thatgaysianrev?lang=en Lei Ming https://www.facebook.com/lifebeyondmybody/ Born in a rural Chinese village and identified as a girl at birth, Lei Ming, is barely cared for during his childhood. Often lonely, terrified and abused, he learns early to fend for himself and look within for answers, but there he discovers a paradox that threatens to undo him. Although he does not yet know the word “transsexual,” at 16, Ming sets out on a secret mission to find relief. Life Beyond My Body tells the true

story of his quest to find answers in a society that is closed-mouthed about men like Ming.

Along the way, Ming finds solace and judgement in the Christian church, loves and loses a woman, begins his physical transition using black market testosterone, is jailed over his identity, and arranges for top surgery without blowing his cover. But ultimately, understanding the true meaning of being a man will require reckoning with God. Sarah Ngu https://twitter.com/sarahngu Sarah Ngu is a freelance writer in Brooklyn, NY. She is a host for a podcast, Religious Socialism; co-founder of Church Clarity, a database that scores church websites on clarity of policies; and a deacon at Forefront Brooklyn Church, a progressive evangelical church, where she co-organizes Queer Communion.

Zora and Ada https://queeringthekindom.com The unfurling story of two women who love Jesus, justice, and each other. Zora is a Caucasian American woman and Ada is an Asian American woman who discuss how God brought the two of them together and continues to foster their relationship.

ORGANIZATIONS Asian and Pacific Islander Roundtable https://clgs.org/our-work/roundtable-projects/asian-and-pacific-islander-roundtable/ The Asian and Pacific Islander Roundtable envisions the emergence of coalitions and networks of API LGBTQ and API allies across the country that affirms the dignity and spiritual wholeness of API-LGBTQ people of faith.

Epic Church (Baptist) https://www.epicchurch.net/ We are a multicultural Asian American church seeking to be a reconciled alternative to the society in which we live: a visible and tangible sign of the kingdom of God. We are not an evangelical church, we are an American Baptist Church with Anabaptist convictions. In part, this means we are an inclusive church embracing of women, people of color, and the LGBTQ community. In Jesus, we believe spirituality is ultimately human, relational, and holistic. Our values of community, justice, and healing are varied expressions of this same divine love.

Evergreen Baptists Church of Los Angeles/Rosemead Branch (Baptist) http://www.ebcla.org/ Offers a queer-friendly ministry called The Open Door (LGBTQ+ Christians). The fellowship is offered twice a month for those who identify as LGBTIA, Queer, Questioning and their families. All are welcome: closeted/out, Side A/Side B. Contact Marian Sunabe: jandmsunabe@sbcglobal.net.

HA:N UMC (New York City) https://www.han-umc.org/ We are an emerging community helping to make God’s dream of a just and peaceful society for all people a reality. In order to discern God’s dream for us we:

• Commit ourselves to critical historical study of the bible and its healing and liberating message.

• Promote equality of all people, inclusive of race, gender identities, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental ability, nationality or socio-economic status.

• Seek to be transformed to be socially engaged.

Network on Religion and Justice http://www.netrj.org/ The Network on Religion and Justice for Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People (NRJ) is a culturally respectful, LGBTQaffirming, spiritually grounded, justice seeking network of API-LGBTQ organizations and individuals, their faith communities, family and friends working to nurture and support efforts toward a fully LGBTQ-inclusive Asian Pacific Islander faith community.

Progressive Asian American Christians https://paachristians.org/ Progressive Asian American Christians, or PAAC for short, is a community for socially, politically, and theologically progressive Asian American and Asian diaspora Christians (of East, Southeast, South, and West Asian descent, as well as Pacific Islanders, Native Hawaiians, and mixed-race individuals) to support each other and discuss faith, identity, and current events. It is an LGBT-affirming, feminist, justice-oriented, anti-racist, pro-immigrant space that holds a wide range of theologies.

San Gabriel Valley API PFlag https://www.sangabrielvalleyapipflag.com/ The SGV API PFLAG is a support group for Asian-Pacific Islander (API) gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgenders (LGBT), as well as for their parents, families, and friends. The group began meeting in April 2012 as a satellite program of PFLAG- Pasadena. In May 2013, we became our own chartered chapter; the first independent API PFLAG chapter in the nation.

PODCASTS Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast Episodes with Guests that speak about LGBTQ+ issues: • Allie and Joyce Taur: http://asianamericapodcast.com/?podcasts=drs-alliejoyce-taur • Anthony Ocampo: http://asianamericapodcast.com/?podcasts=anthony-ocampo • Bianca Louie: http://asianamericapodcast.com/?podcasts=bianca-louie • Danny Cortez: http://asianamericapodcast.com/?podcasts=danny-cortez http://asianamericapodcast.com/?podcasts=danny-cortez-part-2 • Deborah Jian Lee: http://asianamericapodcast.com/?podcasts=deborah-jian-lee • Drew Cortez: http://asianamericapodcast.com/?podcasts=drew-cortez • Hank Chen: http://asianamericapodcast.com/?podcasts=hank-chen • Jon Kaji: http://asianamericapodcast.com/?podcasts=jon-kaji • Kai Tse: http://asianamericapodcast.com/?podcasts=kai-tse • Ling Lam: http://asianamericapodcast.com/?podcasts=ling-lam

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Marsha Aizumi: http://asianamericapodcast.com/?podcasts=marsha-aizumi Mia Yamamoto: http://asianamericapodcast.com/?podcasts=mia-yamamoto Mihee Kim-Kort: http://asianamericapodcast.com/?podcasts=mihee-kim-kort Misty Irons: http://asianamericapodcast.com/?podcasts=misty-irons PJ Raval: http://asianamericapodcast.com/?podcasts=pj-raval Tim Ouyang: http://asianamericapodcast.com/?podcasts=tim-ouyang-2 Wai & Sung Tse: http://asianamericapodcast.com/?podcasts=wai-sung-tse

VIDEOS Aizumi. A & Aizumi M. (2018). 27th Interfaith Intercultural Breakfast Keynote Speakers Marsha and Aiden Aizumi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGI5GHLPAiw Bishop Grant Hagiya (2019). GC2019: March 3, 2019 Special Worship Service. (Methodist). http://www.calpacumc.org/ Welcome to this live stream of a special worship service of the California-Pacific Annual Conference as we gather to remember God is faithful and to reaffirm our covenant with one another and the common ministry to which we are called.

Cortez, D. (2014) Why I Changed My Mind on Homosexuality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqYvkVqVLFo Hoshino, L. (2007) In God’s House: Asian American Lesbian & Gay Families in Church. https://vimeo.com/73005802 Louie, B. (2017) Queer Asian American Christianity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prpu30GmRfU Network on Religion and Justice | Digital Storytelling Project http://www.netrj.org/resources_digital_story_project.html NRJ's Digital Storytelling Project highlights the individual narratives of LGBTQ API people of faith and allies emerging as healers, teachers, and leaders in their communities. This project is funded by GAPA Foundation and SF Foundation in San Francisco. Please use and circulate widely!

Okaeri | Stories from Our Nikkei Faith Community https://drive.google.com/file/d/17B5GIfSkAxgLFuNF2xZPO4Hq5b9bjSpo/view PFLAG | Changing Hearts: API Clergy Share their Journey https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SMI-swM3F3LFzYyy8Dpd0o1sOt30ImIh/view

National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) compiled a set of resources, arranged by

media, regarding faith affirming resources for LGBTQ Hindu Asian Americans, South Asians, Southeast Asians, and Pacific Islanders:

ARTICLES Bhattar, R. and Victoria, N. (2007). Rainbow Rice: A Dialogue between two Asian American Gay Men in Higher Education and Student Affairs. The Vermont Connection. Vol. 28.

Burlington, VT. http://www.uvm.edu/~vtconn/v28/Bhattar_Victoria.pdf Cremier, L. (2014). Silences on Hindu lesbian subjectivity. https://contingenthorizons.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/ch11-31-46-cremier.pdf.

Kannan, S.W. (2011). Living in the shadows: Lesbians in India. Retrieved from: https://www.e-ir.info/2011/08/18/living-in-the-shadows-lesbians-inindia/

Shekar, M. & Venkatachalam, H. (2016). Tradition: Same-sex marriage and Hinduism. In Hinduism Today: https://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=5650 Swadhin, A. (2011). Diwali: A time to be merry and gay. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/amita-swadhin/diwali-a-time-to-be-merry_b_1031781.html.

Hindu American Foundation: Hinduism and Homosexuality https://www.hafsite.org/media/pr/haf-policy-brief-hinduism-andhomosexuality BOOKS Devdutt Pattanaik I Am Divine. So Are You: How Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and Hinduism Affirm the Dignity of Queer Identities and Sexualities. Element. 2017 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077N6V411/r.

Shikhandi: And Other Tales They Don't Tell You. New Delhi: Zubaan Books.

2015. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9383074841/ Gayatri Gopinath Impossible Desires: Queer Diaspora’s and South Asian Public Cultures. Durham: Duke University Press. 2005. https://www.amazon.com/Impossible-Desires-Diasporas-Cultures-Modernities-ebook-dpB00EH BSN8E/dp/B00EHBSN8E Rakesh Ratti Lotus Of Another Color: An Unfolding of the South Asian Gay and Lesbian Experience.

New York: Alyson Books. 1993. https://www.amazon.com/Lotus-Another-Color-Unfolding-Experience/dp/1555831710 Ruth Vanita Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society.

Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2013.

Maira, Sunaina Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 2002. https://www.amazon.com/Desis-House-American-Culture-History/dp/1566399270 MOVIES Harjant Gill (2007). Milind Soman Made Me Gay. https://www.amazon.com/Milind-Soman-Made-Me-Gay/dp/B00B97E19Y Milind Soman Made Me Gay is a conceptual documentary about desire and notions of home

and belonging. The film employs a unique mix of visual elements along with voice over narration to juxtapose memories of the filmmaker’s past against stories of three gay South Asian men living in the diaspora. Overshadowing these nostalgic explorations of life “back home,” are harsh realities of homophobia and racism in America and an ongoing struggle to find a place of belonging.

ORGANIZATIONS Hindu American Foundation https://www.facebook.com/HinduAmerican/ The HAF is a non profit organization headquartered in Washinton, D.C. The HAF has advocated for a mutual respect and understanding of Hindu Americans by promoting accurate portrayals of Hinduism in education and advocating for the rights of Hindu Americans in policy. The HAF has an article written about the importance of addressing the inclusivity of LGBTQ+ identifying individuals from a Hindu perspective and context.

KhushDC https://khushdc.blogspot.com/ KhushDC is a social, support and political group that provides a safe and supportive environment, promotes awareness and acceptance, and fosters positive cultural and sexual identity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning (LGBTQ) and additional gender or sexual minority South Asians in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. We represent a broad array of nationalities including those of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

Galva https://www.galva108.org/ The Gay & Lesbian Vaishnava Association is an international organization dedicated to providing resources and support to LGBTQ+ Vaishnavas and Hindus and allies. Part of their mission is to spread the teachings of Lord Chaitanya to promote inclusivity and inform audiences of the experiences of those who identify as part of the third sex.

Sadhana https://www.sadhana.org/ Our LGBTQI Committee has been brainstorming how Sadhana can be a resource and support to LGBTQI Hindus in the United States. We have begun building a database of Hindu mythic stories, sacred scriptures, traditional practices, and academic texts that portray same sex desire as natural and joyful, and that foreground the lives of tritiya prakriti individuals. We are also working on expanding our service to LGBTQI communities by creating a database of queer-friendly Hindu temples and spaces, priests eager to perform same-sex marriages, and queer community centers for people of South Asian and Indo-Caribbean descent.

SALGA-NYC http://www.salganyc.org/ SALGA-NYC serves to promote awareness, acceptance, empowerment, and safe inclusive

spaces for people of all sexual and gender identities, who trace their heritage to South Asia or who identify as South Asian.

Satrang http://satrang.org/ Satrang serves the South Asian LGBT*Q community by promoting awareness, acceptance, and empowerment through social, educational, and advocacy-related events. We envision an inclusive and visible community in which South Asian LGBTQ-identified people feel whole and heard.

Trikone http://www.trikone.org/ Trikone is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) people of South Asian descent, who trace their ethnicities to one of the following places: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Tibet. Founded in 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Area, Trikone is the oldest group of its kind in the world.

National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) compiled a set of resources, arranged by

media, regarding faith affirming resources for queer, Muslim Asian Americans: ARTICLES Human Rights Campaign Faith Resources https://assets2.hrc.org/files/assets/resources/RFP_LGBTQ_Muslim_Resources.pdf https://assets2.hrc.org/files/assets/resources/HRC-MUSLIM_GUIDE.pdf https://www.hrc.org/resources/stances-of-faiths-on-lgbt-issues-islam “I’m Muslim and I Might Not be Straight: A Resource for LGBTQ+ Muslim Youth.” https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kuPfloIByySx_WH7iSLw9RCJxsfecjlG/view Muhsin Hendricks – Islamic Texts: A Source for Acceptance of Queer Individuals into Mainstream Muslim Society https://www.equalrightstrust.org/ertdocumentbank/muhsin.pdf Olfa Youssef - The Qur’an and Homosexuality http://aminetais.com/the-quran-and-homosexuality/ Totally Radical Muslims Zine http://www.totallyradicalmuslims.org/ a group of oakland based muslims started a zine in 2012 to confront, share, name and re-imagine experiences of islamophobia. we created three volumes together, which are freely shared this this website. TRM has since ended, and we hope the zines inspire other projects far and wide. the zines lifted up the perspectives of often untold muslims - the radicals, queers, fabulous and fierce folks - through adding narratives of navigating the spectrum of practice, belief, ideology, sect, gender and islamophobia.

Human Rights Campaign: Coming Home to Islam & Self (Brochure) https://www.hrc.org/resources/coming-home-to-islam-and-to-self Is There Room in Islam for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Muslims? By Dr. Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle / Adapted for MPV by Tynan Power http://www.mpvusa.org/sexuality-diversity PFLAG: Faith Resources for Muslims https://pflag.org/resource/faith-resources-muslims BOOKS Afdhere Jama Queer Jihad: LGBT Muslims on Coming Out, Activism, and the Faith. Oracle Releasing: 2014. https://www.amazon.com/Queer-Jihad-Muslims-Coming-Activism/dp/0983716161/ Samra Habib Islam and Homosexuality (2 Volumes Set) https://www.amazon.com/Islam-Homosexuality-2-Volumes-Set/dp/0313379009 We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir. New York: Viking. 2019 https://www.amazon.com/We-Have-Always-Been-Here/dp/0735235007 Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle Homosexuality in Islam: Critical Reflection on Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims.

London: Oneworld Publications. 2010. https://www.amazon.com/Homosexuality-Islam-Critical-Reflection-Transgender/dp/1851687017 Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims https://www.amazon.com/Living-Out-Islam-Lesbian-Transgender/dp/1479894672/ Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature https://www.amazon.com/Islamic-Homosexualities-Culture-History-Literature/dp/0814774687/ BLOGS Allah Made Me Queer http://allahmademequeer.tumblr.com/ Faith, identity, acceptance. We are queer because that is how Allah planned it. It is not a choice, and our identities are not up for discussion.

The Bisexual Bangladeshi http://thebisexualbangladeshi.blogspot.com/ https://thebisexualbangladeshi.tumblr.com/ Coming out in inverted commas because I'm unsure as to how I feel about the term. No one should feel obligated to declare their sexuality - it is a very personal thing. However, we live in a world where people are assumed heterosexual until they assert otherwise, and as such coming out is often a practical thing you have to do. How can we expect to obtain our rights, without first asserting that we exist?

The Huriyah Blog http://huriyahmag.blogspot.com/ Huriyah was a queer Muslim magazine between the years 2000 and 2010. We are now publishing content from several LGBT Muslims on issues dealing with sexuality, faith, and culture.

I am not Haraam http://iamnotharaam.tumblr.com/ Welcome to the home of the “I am not Haraam” project - a blog created for LGBTQIA+ Muslims by LGBTQIA+ Muslims.

Haraam is an Arabic word used in Islam to mean “forbidden”. This project has been started as a way for LGBTQIA+ Muslims to stand up and proclaim that we will not allow our existence as LGBTQIA+ Muslims to be erased any longer. We are not kafirs, we are not deviant, our existence is not a sin. This is our space to say: WE ARE NOT HARAAM. Muslims Against Homophobia and LGBT Faith (LA) https://www.facebook.com/pg/MuslimsAgainstLGBTHate/ We are Muslims who believe in dignity and respect for all humans and pledge to stop and stand up to oppressions of all forms including hate against LGBTIQA and Queer human beings. We believe in treating people the way we would like to be treated.

Queer Muslims http://queermuslims.tumblr.com/ A tumblr by and for queer muslims.

“Not queer like gay, queer like escaping definition,”- Brandon Wint This tumblr seeks to celebrate and complicate what it means to hold multiple identities through posts with different viewpoints on what it means to hold multiple identities through posts with different viewpoints.

Queer Muslim Project http://queermuslimproject.tumblr.com/ Samra Habib, a queer Muslim photographer, has been travelling through North America and Europe to take the portraits of LBGT Muslims willing to share their life stories and desire for connection.

Queer Ummah http://queerummah.tumblr.com/ Queer Ummah is a small project started by Taylor Amari Little that aims to allow people to hear stories and experiences of LGBTQ+ Muslims. Why is this important? Often, LGBTQ+ Muslims aren't given any safe spaces or representation, and are excluded from the rest of the Muslim community. Many LGBTQ+ people who come from religious families suffer from internal conflict and struggle with their own faith and feel that they must have one or the other: Be a Muslim or be queer. Contrary to popular belief, the two are not mutually exclusive. LGBTQ+ Muslims exist. And some of them are ready for you to listen.

Trans Muslims http://trans-muslims.tumblr.com/ Transgender Muslims exist. We live, breathe, eat and pray just like anybody else in the ummah. This isn’t a space to debate or justify our existence to bigots - it’s so that people like us can connect with and support each other MOVIES A Jihad for Love https://www.amazon.com/Jihad-Love/dp/B001P9G3B0/ In a time when Islam is under tremendous attack from within and without, A JIHAD FOR LOVE is a daring documentary filmed in twelve countries and nine languages. Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma has gone where the silence is loudest, filming with great risk in nations where government

permission to make this film was not an option.

A JIHAD FOR LOVE is the world's first feature documentary to explore the complex global intersections between Islam and homosexuality. Parvez enters the many worlds of Islam by illuminating multiple stories as diverse as Islam itself. The film travels a wide geographic arc presenting us lives from India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, South Africa and France. Always filming in secret and as a Muslim, Parvez makes the film from within the faith, depicting Islam with the same respect that the film's characters show for it.

ORGANIZATIONS Compassion Centered Islam https://compassion-centred-islam.net https://www.facebook.com/Compassion-centred-Islam446900425837366/ Compassion-centred-Islam.net or better known as the CCI Network was established in September 2018.

It is an initiative by Imam Muhsin Hendricks, the world’s first openly queer Imam who comes with more than two decades of knowledge and experience in queer Muslim activism. The network consists of subsidiary organizations connected to the work of Imam Muhsin Hendricks, such as Al-Ghurbaah Foundation and the Masjidul Ghurbaah project.

We provide a safe & inclusive online space for our members. The Network provides its members with access to critical information and training that can empower them. Here they find a supportive online community with which they can connect and through which they can feel a sense of belonging. The Network is the hub and voice of queer Muslims and other marginalized groups. This online community offers a space for networking, collaboration and relationship building across borders.

Haven: The Inclusive Muslim Union of Philadelphia https://www.facebook.com/pg/havenimup/ An accessible and inclusive space for Muslims to connect socially, spiritually, and culturally.

Iftikhar Community of Texas https://www.facebook.com/IftikharCommunity/ Iftikhar means PRIDE in Arabic, and as Queer Muslims, we take pride in our identities! Our space is open for anyone who grew up in a Muslim background or identifies as Muslim and who identifies with the LBGTQIA community. The space is respectful and confidential and accepting towards everyone regardless of where they might be in the coming out process. We are trans inclusive, bi-friendly, atheist friendly and questioning friendly.

KhushDC https://khushdc.blogspot.com/ KhushDC is a social, support and political group that provides a safe and supportive environment, promotes awareness and acceptance, and fosters positive cultural and sexual identity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning (LGBTQ) and additional gender or sexual minority South Asians in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

We represent a broad array of nationalities including those of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

LGBT Muslims & Their Allies https://www.facebook.com/LGBTMuslimsAndAllies/?ref=br_rs

Masjid al-Rabia (Chicago) https://masjidalrabia.org/ All Muslims deserve an environment in which we can practice our faith without fear of exclusion or violence. We don’t believe it is asking too much to be uncompromisingly ourselves - as women, as queer and trans people, as “marginalized Muslims” - and still have a faith community we can come home to.

Masjid al-Rabia is an Islamic community center in Chicago providing inclusive, affirming Muslim community while fostering in an Islam that leaves no one behind.

The MECCA Institute (D.C.) https://meccainstitute.org/ https://meccainstitute.org/lgbt/being-gay-and-muslim MECCA Institute is a theological school and think tank that focuses on Progressive Islam. What is Progressive Islam? It is the kind that was practiced by Prophet Muhammad in which women, LGBT persons, and people of other faiths are welcome in the mosque. This type of Islam is always cool, always timely, and never at odds with anyone.As such, we are an LGBT-affirming organization in which our LGBT family is part of our community in every way.

Muslims Against Homophobia and LGBT Hate https://www.facebook.com/MuslimsAgainstLGBTHate/?ref=br_rs Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (D.C.) http://www.muslimalliance.org/ The Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD) works to support, empower and connect LGBTQ Muslims. We seek to challenge root causes of oppression, including misogyny and xenophobia. We aim to increase the acceptance of gender and sexual diversity within Muslim communities, and to promote a progressive understanding of Islam that is centered on inclusion, justice, and equality.MASGD hosts a retreat for LGBTQ Muslims and their partners each year.

Muslims for Progressive Values (Atlanta/L.A.) http://www.mpvusa.org/ Since 2007 MPV establishes and nurtures vibrant progressive Muslim communities worldwide. We envision a future where Muslims all over the world champion for dignity, justice, compassion and love for all humanity and the world.

Muslim Youth Leadership Council https://advocatesforyouth.org/about/our-programs/muslim-youth-leadership-council-mylc/ “I’m Muslim and I Might Not be Straight: A Resource for LGBTQ+ Muslim Youth.” https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kuPfloIByySx_WH7iSLw9RCJxsfecjlG/view The Muslim Youth Leadership Council (MyLC) is a group of Muslim-identifying people ages 17-24 from across the country, working locally and nationally as activists, organizers, writers, leaders and more to promote LGBTQ rights, immigrant rights, and sexual and reproductive health and rights for Muslims.

MyLC focuses on four main areas of work: countering Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hate, strengthening sexual health and reproductive rights for young Muslims, promoting LGBTQ rights and supporting queer Muslims, and working towards racial justice and countering anti-Blackness in our communities.

Attached is a pamphlet produced by the Muslim Youth Leadership Council titled “I’m Muslim and I Might Not be Straight: A Resource for LGBTQ+ Muslim Youth.”

NOOR: LGBTQI Muslims of Seattle http://noorseattle.tumblr.com/ https://www.facebook.com/pg/seattleqt An all-inclusive LGBTQI (and Questioning) confidential meeting space for individuals in the greater

Seattle area that have ever identified as Muslim* We aim to build a supportive and conscious community through solidarity. We view solidarity as unity amongst folx with the common interest of removing the isolation our identities often cause.

OUTMuslim https://www.facebook.com/pg/OutMuslim/ https://twitter.com/OutMuslim OUTMuslim is an online community that aims to increase the visibility of queer-identifying Muslims through various digital media. The intent is for people from all walks of life to bear witness to the world of LGBTQIA Muslims, in the hopes of creating room for more widespread acceptance. OUTMuslim stands behind the idea that sacred spaces should be safe spaces, and embraces people of all faiths and identities.

Queer Crescent Healing https://www.facebook.com/QueerCrescent/ https://www.instagram.com/queercrescent/ Building safety, healing arts and justice with queer and trans Muslims of color Queer Muslims of Boston https://qmob.wordpress.com/ https://www.facebook.com/QMOBoston Queer Muslims of Boston (QMOB) builds community for Queer and Trans Muslims in the Greater Boston area. We are inclusive of all individuals who identify as Muslim and LGBTIA, Queer, or Questioning. We are committed to increasing the visibility of Queer Muslims as a group, while respecting the need for privacy of individual members.

Queer Muslim Project https://www.instagram.com/thequeermuslimproject/ SALGA-NYC http://www.salganyc.org/ SALGA-NYC serves to promote awareness, acceptance, empowerment, and safe inclusive spaces for people of all sexual and gender identities, who trace their heritage to South Asia or who identify as South Asian.

Texas Queer Muslims https://www.facebook.com/groups/689112654490730/ VIDEOS EXTREME(LY) QUEER MUSLIMS https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeRTgpWPTBRNcRw3Zi8G3iHuZN0FTkJU2 LGBT Muslim Videos on YouTube http://tinyurl.com/LGBTMuslimVideos PBS’ FIRST PERSON: QUEER & MUSLIM IN AMERICA https://www.pbs.org/video/queer-muslim-in-america-rgyuo8/ We Resist: A Queer Muslim Perspective | El-Farouk Khaki | TEDxUTSC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXydVaieYdo

National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) compiled a set of resources, arranged by

media, regarding faith affirming resources for LGBTQ Sikhs:

ARTICLES: Gill, H. (2017, May 02). To Babes, with love: An illustrator explores the intersection between queer and Sikh pride. https://scroll.in/magazine/835015/to-babes-with-love-an-illustrator-explores-the-intersectionbet ween-queer-and-sikh-pride Singh, M. (2015, Aug 22). How I learned to have pride in both my Sikh and gay identity. https://qz.com/484963/how-i-learned-to-have-pride-in-both-my-sikh-and-gay-identity/ Singh, S. (2011, Nov 10). We Are One: LGBT Rights and Guru Nanak’s Legacy of Inclusion. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lgbt-sikhs-and-guru-nanak_b_1086193 Smith, D. (2019, Jan 29). Nonbinary, Sikh, and fierce as hell: Interviewing Prabhdeep Kehal. https://www.wussymag.com/all/2019/1/28/nonbinary-sikh-and-fierce-as-hell-interviewingprabh deep-kehal BOOKS Devdutt Pattanaik I Am Divine. So Are You: How Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and Hinduism Affirm the Dignity of Queer Identities and Sexualities. Element. 2017 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077N6V411/r.

MOVIES Harjant Gill (2007). Milind Soman Made Me Gay. https://www.amazon.com/Milind-Soman-Made-Me-Gay/dp/B00B97E19Y Milind Soman Made Me Gay is a conceptual documentary about desire and notions of home and belonging. The film employs a unique mix of visual elements along with voice over narration to juxtapose memories of the filmmaker’s past against stories of three gay South Asian men living in the diaspora. Overshadowing these nostalgic explorations of life “back home,” are harsh realities of homophobia and racism in America and an ongoing struggle to find a place of belonging.Harjant Gill (2007). Milind Soman Made Me Gay. ORGANIZATIONS Sarbat http://www.sarbat.net/ Sarbat is a social and support group for LGBT Sikhs. We offer a platform for like-minded Sikhs from all walks of life and aim to promote the LGBT Sikh cause in a fair and courteous manner.

We also strongly believe that there is no room for discrimination within our communities for being who we are – We would also like LGBT issues to be discussed openly within our communities without the taboo or any awkwardness attached to it. Moving forward we want local volunteers to commence Sarbat groups around the World.

Sarbat is a social and support group for LGBT Sikhs. We offer a platform for like-minded Sikhs from all walks of life and aim to promote the LGBT Sikh cause in a fair and courteous manner. We also strongly believe that there is no room for discrimination within our communities for being who we are – We would also like LGBT issues to be discussed openly within our communities without the taboo or any awkwardness attached to it. Moving forward we want local volunteers to commence Sarbat groups around the World.

SALGA-NYC http://www.salganyc.org/ SALGA-NYC serves to promote awareness, acceptance, empowerment, and safe inclusive spaces for people of all sexual and gender identities, who trace their heritage to South Asia or who identify as South Asian.

VIDEOS Justice for LGBT Sikhs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuYm65qqv0s

AND FOR ITS CONTINUED LEADERSHIP IN BUILDING A NATIONWIDE COMMUNITY OF ASIAN AMERICAN, SOUTH ASIAN, SOUTHEAST ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER LGBTQ AMERICANS

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Tell Congress to pass the LGBT Equality Act, Dream Act, and Reuniting Families Act!

Asian Americans, Southeast Asians, South Asians and Pacific Islanders (APIs) are the nation’s fast growing minority group and the largest segment of new immigrants coming to the United States. More and more are coming out as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ). NQAPIA advocates for LGBTQ APIs at the intersection of immigrants’ rights, racial justice, and queerness.

The new Congress is an opportunity to advance federal legislation that protects all of our communities, especially those who are LGBTQ, Asian, immigrants, and young people.

Join NQAPIA to support the: LGBT Equality Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender-identity in employment, housing, credit, education, public spaces and services, federally funded programs, and jury service.

Dream Act so immigrant youth can continue to live, work, and study in the United States without fear of deportation, after being brought here as children. 169,000 APIs are eligible for DACA. 267,000 undocumented immigrants are LGBT. President Trump wants to end DACA, and many LGBT API youth could be deported to countries that criminalize homosexuality.

Reuniting Families Act to update and preserve the current family-based immigration system to keep families together and reduce family immigration visa backlogs. It protects same-sex couples when one partner is from a country that does not recognize same-sex marriage, is an asylum grantee, or both are refugees and aim to be resettled together.

Sign enclosed postcards four (4) times, do not cut, and submit to NQAPIA. Your postcards will join thousands more and be delivered together to Congress at the same time for maximum impact. You may keep the fact sheet.

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Reuniting Families Act to update and preserve the current family-based immigration system to keep families together and reduce family immigration visa backlogs.

Dream Act so immigrant youth can continue to live, work, and study in the United States without fear of deportation, after being brought here as children.

LGBT Equality Act to outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender-identity in employment, housing, education, and public spaces.

Dear US Senator: I urge you to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander communities by supporting the:

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Reuniting Families Act to update and preserve the current family-based immigration system to keep families together and reduce family immigration visa backlogs.

Dream Act so immigrant youth can continue to live, work, and study in the United States without fear of deportation, after being brought here as children.

LGBT Equality Act to outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender-identity in employment, housing, education, and public spaces.

Dear Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell: I urge you to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander communities by supporting the:

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Reuniting Families Act to update and preserve the current family-based immigration system to keep families together and reduce family immigration visa backlogs.

Dream Act so immigrant youth can continue to live, work, and study in the United States without fear of deportation, after being brought here as children.

LGBT Equality Act to outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender-identity in employment, housing, education, and public spaces.

Dear US Senator: I urge you to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander communities by supporting the:

Phone:

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City/State/ Zip:

Street Address:

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Reuniting Families Act to update and preserve the current family-based immigration system to keep families together and reduce family immigration visa backlogs.

Dream Act so immigrant youth can continue to live, work, and study in the United States without fear of deportation, after being brought here as children.

LGBT Equality Act to outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender-identity in employment, housing, education, and public spaces.

Dear Representative: I urge you to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander communities by supporting the:

! ! ! !

LGBT!APIs!and!the!Diversity!Visa!Program! !

The!Diversity!Visa!Program!has!come!under!vicious!attack!by!Donald!Trump!and!politicians.!

Some!congressional!proposals!seek!to!limit!legal!immigration!by!curtailing!family=based! immigration!and!the!Diversity!Visa!lottery!program.!!This!would!have!a!devastating!impact!on!

Asians,!South!Asians,!Southeast!Asians,!West!Asians,!and!Pacific!Islanders!(APIs).!! !

Most!Asian!Americans!immigrate!to!the!United!States!with!the!intent!to!permanently!reside! through!family=based!and!diversity!immigration.!!But!unlike!family=based!immigration,!Diversity!

Visas!do!not!require!applicants!to!already!have!family!members!within!the!United!States.! !

Diversity!Visas!are!also!unlike!other!visa!programs!in!that!they!allow!people!to!live!permanently! in!the!United!States.!!Other!visas!–!for!workers,!students!and!tourists!–!are!temporary!and! require!the!visa!holders!to!eventually!return!to!their!home!counties.!!! !

The!aim!of!Diversity!Visas!is!to!diversify!immigration!beyond!the!largest!source!countries.!

Countries!that!have!sent!more!then!50,000!immigrants!in!the!past!5!years!are!not!eligible!for!

Diversity!Visas.!50,000!Diversity!Visas!are!given!out!each!year!through!a!lottery!system.!In!2017,! most!came!from!Eastern!Europe!(21.7%)!and!Africa!(38.9%).! !

Applicants!to!the!Diversity!Visa!lottery!system!go!through!extensive!vetting.!Applicants!must! have!a!high!school!education!or!two!years!in!an!occupation!with!at!least!two!years!of!training!or! experience.!!Fingerprints,!digital!photographs,!in=person!interviews!and!background!checks! against!crime!and!terrorism!databases!are!required.! !

Through!most!APIs!come!to!live!in!the!US!through!family!immigration,!Diversity!Visas!are! important!for!particular!Asian!counties.!!Below!are!2017!number:!!

Most!immigrants!who!intend!to!permanently!reside!in!the!U.S.!come!from!diversity!visas.!!

Nepal!(76.6%)!!

Mongolia!(74.6%)!!

Half!of!the!immigrants!who!permanently!move!to!the!U.S.!come!from!diversity!visas.!!

Japan!(45.1%!)!!

Fiji!(45.7%)!

Iran!(49.5%!)!!

A!significant!portion!of!immigrants!come!from!diversity!visas!for!these!countries.!!

Sri!Lanka!!(40.3%)!!

Tonga!!(25.5%)!!

Cambodia!!(22.3%)!!

Comparison!of!Diversity!and!Family!Visas!in!Asia!and!Oceania!2017!

Source:!U.S.!Department!of!State!Visa!Office.!!Highlights!in!bold.!!! !

Countries!

Diversity!!

East!Asia!

Family!!

!

China!=!mainland!born!

%!Diversity!!

!

!

Not!Eligible!

15401!

=!

160!

728!

18%!

18!

834!

2.1%!

117!

142!

45.1%!

Korea,!North!

0!

2!

0%!

Korea,!South!

Not!Eligible!

1381!

=!

Macau!

30!

183!

14%!

Mongolia!

97!

33!

74.6%!

China!=!Taiwan!born!

Hong!Kong!S.A.R.!

Japan!

South!Asia!

!

!

!

Afghanistan!

144!

338!

29.8%!

Bangladesh!

Not!Eligible!

6970!

=!

7!

7!

50%!

Bhutan!

Maldives!

0!

0!

=!

3477!

1061!

76.6%!

India!

Not!Eligible!

15361!

=!

Pakistan!

Not!Eligible!

6242!

=!

160!

237!

40.3%!

Nepal!

Sri!Lanka!

Southeast!Asia!

!

!

!

Burma!

148!

556!

21%!

Brunei!

0!

0!

=!

Cambodia!

198!

687!

22.3%!

Indonesia!

41!

188!

17.9%!

0!

99!

0%!

30!

161!

15.7%!

Not!Eligible!

13801!

=!

Singapore!

9!

57!

13.6%!

Thailand!

19!

281!

6.3%!

0!

0!

=!

Not!Eligible!

18152!

=!

!

!

!

Laos!

Malaysia!

Philippines!

Timore=Leste!

Vietnam! !

Oceania!! !

Fiji!

!

214!

254!

Kiribati!

0!

0!

=!!!

Marshall!Islands!

0!

0!

=!

Micronesia!

0!

0!

=!

Nauru!

0!

0!

=!

Palau!

0!

0!

=!

Papau!New!Guinea!

1!

0!

10%!

Samoa!

0!

13!

0%!

Solomon!Islands!

0!

0!

=!

Tonga!

24!

70!

25.5%!

Tuvalu!

2!

0!

100%!

Vanuatu!

0!

0!

=!

!

!

!

1!

8!

11.1%!

Iran!

2106!

2143!

49.5%!

Iraq!

150!

338!

30.7%!

Israel!

34!

128!

20.9%!

Jordan!

96!

1765!

5.1%!

Kuwait!

45!

188!

19.3%!

Lebanon!

41!

817!

4.7%!

Oman!

6!

7!

46.1%!

Qatar!

9!

27!

25%!

Saudi!Arabia!

111!

224!

33.1%!

Syria!

128!

1217!

9.5%!

31!

193!

13.8%!

267!

1564!

14.5%!

West!Asia!

Bahrain!

United!Arab!Emirates!

Yemen! !

Source:!U.S.!Department!of!State!Visa!Office.!!Highlights!in!bold.!!! !

See this on-line at https://www.nqapia.org/wpp/fact-sheet-diversity-visa-apis/ !

!

46.7%!

$ The$Dream$Act!!

Of!the!approximately!11!million!undocumented!immigrants!in!the!United!States,!more!than!a! million!are!undocumented!young!people!who!were!brought!to!the!United!States!as!minors!and! have!spent!most!of!their!lives!living!in!the!United!States.!! !

The!Dream!Act!will!protect!young!undocumented!immigrants,!who!are!vulnerable!to! deportation,!many!of!whom!are!Deferred!Action!for!Childhood!Arrivals!(DACA)!recipients.!!! !

The!DACA!program!has!allowed!800,000!young!people!to!live,!work,!and!study!in!the!United!

States!without!fear!of!deportation,!after!being!brought!here!as!children.!!169,000!APIs!are! eligible!for!DACA.!!267,000!undocumented!immigrants!are!LGBT.!!!! !

However,!President!Trump!has!vowed!to!end!DACA,!many!LGBT!API!youth!could!be!deported!to! countries!that!criminalize!homosexuality.!!Several!lawsuits!have!temporarily!delayed,!but! cannot!permanently!block!Trump’s!cancellation!of!DACA.!!Congress!still!needs!to!act!to!save!

DACA!and!find!a!permanent!solution!for!the!Dreamers.! !

Undocumented!LGBTQ!people!experience!compounded!discrimination!due!to!their!sexual! orientation,!gender!identity,!and!immigration!status.!Approximately!75,000!Dreamers!are!

LGBTQ,!and!36,000!of!them!have!gotten!relief!through!DACA.! !

In!a!third!of!countries!around!the!world,!it!is!a!crime!to!be!LGBTQ.!Thousands!of!people!every! year!are!arrested,!harassed!and!even!murdered!because!of!their!sexual!orientation!or!gender! identity.!Sending!LGBTQ!Dreamers!back!to!these!countries!would!gravely!threaten!their!health! and!safety.! !

The!Dream!Act!would!provide!Dreamers!the!opportunity!to!apply!for!permanent!legal!status! and!eventually!become!eligible!for!U.S.!citizenship.!It!allows!current,!former,!and!future! undocumented!highEschool!graduates!and!GED!recipients!a!threeEstep!pathway!to!U.S.! citizenship!through!college,!work,!or!the!armed!services.! !

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The$LGBT$Equality$Act!!

Lesbian,!gay,!bisexual,!transgender,!and!queer!(LGBTQ)!Americans!lack!basic!legal!protections!in! states!across!the!country.!The!patchwork!nature!of!current!laws!leaves!millions!of!people! subject!to!uncertainty!and!potential!discrimination!that!impacts!their!safety,!their!families,!and! their!dayEtoEday!lives,!especially!in!states!like!TX,!FL,!PA,!GA,!LA,!etc.!! !

Our!nation’s!civil!rights!laws!protect!people!on!the!basis!of!race,!color,!national!origin,!and!in! most!cases,!sex,!disability,!and!religion.!But!federal!law!does!not!provide!consistent!nonE discrimination!protections!based!on!sexual!orientation!or!gender!identity.!Nearly!twoEthirds!of!

LGBTQ!Americans!report!having!experienced!discrimination!in!their!personal!lives.!! !

The!Equality!Act!would!provide!consistent!and!explicit!nonEdiscrimination!protections!for!

LGBTQ!people!across!key!areas!of!life,!including!employment,!housing,!credit,!education,!public! spaces!and!services,!federally!funded!programs,!and!jury!service.!! !

The!Equality!Act!would!amend!existing!civil!rights!laws!to!explicitly!include!sexual!orientation! and!gender!identity!as!protected!characteristics.!It!also!amends!the!Civil!Rights!Act!of!1964!to! prohibit!discrimination!in!public!spaces!and!services!and!federally!funded!programs!on!the!basis! of!sex.!Additionally,!the!Equality!Act!would!update!the!public!spaces!and!services!covered!in! current!law!to!include!retail!stores,!services!such!as!banks!and!legal!services,!and!transportation! services.!These!important!updates!would!strengthen!existing!protections!for!everyone.! !

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$ Reuniting$Families$Act$$ The!current!familyEbased!immigration!system!has!not!been!updated!in!20!years—keeping! spouses,!children,!and!their!parents!separated!for!years!and!often!decades.!The!Reuniting!

Families!Act!would!reduce!family!immigration!visa!backlogs!and!promote!humane!and!timely! reunification!of!immigrant!families.!! !

There!are!over!4.4!million!people!in!the!family!immigration!backlog!waiting!unconscionable! periods!of!time!to!reunite!with!their!family!members.!The!bill!reunites!family!members!to! strengthen!our!communities!and!our!economy.!Specifically,!the!bill’s!provisions!propose!the! following!changes,!additions,!or!deletions:!! !

•!!Recaptures!Immigrant!Visas!Lost!to!Bureaucratic!Delay—The!bill!recaptures!unused! employmentEbased!and!familyEsponsored!visas!from!fiscal!years!1992E2015.!For!future!years,! unused!visa!numbers!will!automatically!“roll!over”!to!the!next!fiscal!year.!! !

•!!Reclassifies!Spouses!&!Minor!Children!of!Green!Card!Holders!as!“Immediate!Relatives”—so! that!spouses!and!children!under!21!of!lawful!permanent!residents!who!are!waiting!can! immediately!reunite!with!their!families.!!Currently,!they!are!subject!to!annual!numerical!limits.!! !

•!!Eliminates!PerECountry!Limits—This!addresses!the!decadesElong!backlogs!from!certain! countries!such!as!the!Mexico,!the!Philippines,!China,!and!India.!! !

•!!Provides!Greater!Enforcement!Relief!for!Families—Allows!more!flexibility!in!addressing! numerous!hardships,!including!family!separation,!and!gives!immigration!adjudicators!and! judges!more!discretion!to!handle!special!cases.!! !

•!!Eliminates!Having!to!go!to!the!Back!of!the!Line—A!familyE!or!employmentEbased!visa! applicant!can!retain!their!earliest!priority!date!regardless!of!the!category!of!subsequent! petitions.!! !

•!!Accommodates!Special!Immigrant!Groups—provides!relief!for!orphans!and!widows!seeking!a! visa!after!the!death!of!a!sponsoring!relative;!exempts!children!of!Filipino!World!War!II!who! fought!of!the!U.S.!from!family!visa!limits;!and!allows!for!equal!treatment!of!all!stepchildren.!! !

•!!Includes!LGBTQ!Immigration!Protections—permits!LGBTQ!citizens!and!legal!permanent! residents!in!binational!sameEsex!relationships!to!sponsor!their!permanent!partner!for! immigration!to!the!U.S.;!helps!individuals!whose!permanent!partner!is!from!a!country!that!does! not!recognize!sameEsex!marriage;!ensure!that!sameE!sex!refugee!partners!are!resettled! together;!and!that!asylum!grantees!can!have!their!nonE!married!partners!“follow!to!join”!them! in!the!U.S.!! !

WHAT IS FAMILY IMMIGRATION? Family unity is a core American value. Families are the cornerstone of our communities and the most fundamental institution of our society. Family unity promotes physical and mental health and well-being, security, and prosperity. Immigration is fundamentally about people planting permanent roots in a new country and should take into account the human need to live with and care for one’s family. Our current family-based immigration system, including the diversity visa program and refugee and asylum programs, have contributed to strong, vibrant and diverse American communities, making the United States the country that it is today.

THE REUNITING FAMILIES ACT The Reuniting Families Act reflects our family values and reunites family members to strengthen our communities and our economy. This bill would reduce family immigration visa backlogs and promote humane and timely reunification of immigrant families.

Specifically, the bill would:

www.ValueOurFamilies.org

There are nearly ​4 million people in the family immigration backlog,​ waiting unconscionable periods of time to reunite with their family members. The current family-based immigration system has not been updated in 20 years—keeping spouses, children, and their parents separated for years and often decades. The Reuniting Families Act reflects our family values and will reunite family members to strengthen our communities and our economy.

THE VALUE OUR FAMILIES COALITION National Korean American Service and Education Consortium (NAKASEC) Asian Americans Advancing Justice Affiliation Church World Service Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) / Labor Coalition for Community Action Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM) / Center for Community Change Immigrant Legal Resource Center National Domestic Workers Alliance National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) The UndocuBlack Network Arizona APIA Vote Table Asia Pacific Cultural Center Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon (APANO) Asian Pacific Islander American Vote (APIA Vote) - Michigan Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles (CHIRLA) D.C. - MD Justice for Our Neighbors Disciples Refugee and Immigration Ministries International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) National Council of Jewish Women National Immigrant Justice Center National Tongan American Society New York Immigration Coalition Ohio Progressive Asian Women's Leadership OneAmerica Services Immigrant Rights and Education Network (SIREN) Sojourners Southeast Asia Resource Action Center

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Plenary: Taking Action

Queer Asian & Proud Defend Immigrants’ Rights • Fight for LGBT Equality

Tell Congress to pass the LGBT Equality Act, Dream Act, and Reuniting Families Act!

Asian Americans, Southeast Asians, South Asians and Pacific Islanders (APIs) are the nation’s fast growing minority group and the largest segment of new immigrants coming to the United States. More and more are coming out as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ). NQAPIA advocates for LGBTQ APIs at the intersection of immigrants’ rights, racial justice, and queerness.

The new Congress is an opportunity to advance federal legislation that protects all of our communities, especially those who are LGBTQ, Asian, immigrants, and young people.

Join NQAPIA to support the: LGBT Equality Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender-identity in employment, housing, credit, education, public spaces and services, federally funded programs, and jury service.

Dream Act so immigrant youth can continue to live, work, and study in the United States without fear of deportation, after being brought here as children. 169,000 APIs are eligible for DACA. 267,000 undocumented immigrants are LGBT. President Trump wants to end DACA, and many LGBT API youth could be deported to countries that criminalize homosexuality.

Reuniting Families Act to update and preserve the current family-based immigration system to keep families together and reduce family immigration visa backlogs. It protects same-sex couples when one partner is from a country that does not recognize same-sex marriage, is an asylum grantee, or both are refugees and aim to be resettled together.

Sign enclosed postcards four (4) times, do not cut, and submit to NQAPIA. Your postcards will join thousands more and be delivered together to Congress at the same time for maximum impact. You may keep the fact sheet.

@NQAPIA

Phone:

Email:

City/State/ Zip:

Street Address:

Name:

Reuniting Families Act to update and preserve the current family-based immigration system to keep families together and reduce family immigration visa backlogs.

Dream Act so immigrant youth can continue to live, work, and study in the United States without fear of deportation, after being brought here as children.

LGBT Equality Act to outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender-identity in employment, housing, education, and public spaces.

Dear US Senator: I urge you to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander communities by supporting the:

Phone:

Email:

City/State/ Zip:

Street Address:

Name:

Reuniting Families Act to update and preserve the current family-based immigration system to keep families together and reduce family immigration visa backlogs.

Dream Act so immigrant youth can continue to live, work, and study in the United States without fear of deportation, after being brought here as children.

LGBT Equality Act to outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender-identity in employment, housing, education, and public spaces.

Dear Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell: I urge you to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander communities by supporting the:

Phone:

Email:

City/State/ Zip:

Street Address:

Name:

Reuniting Families Act to update and preserve the current family-based immigration system to keep families together and reduce family immigration visa backlogs.

Dream Act so immigrant youth can continue to live, work, and study in the United States without fear of deportation, after being brought here as children.

LGBT Equality Act to outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender-identity in employment, housing, education, and public spaces.

Dear US Senator: I urge you to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander communities by supporting the:

Phone:

Email:

City/State/ Zip:

Street Address:

Name:

Reuniting Families Act to update and preserve the current family-based immigration system to keep families together and reduce family immigration visa backlogs.

Dream Act so immigrant youth can continue to live, work, and study in the United States without fear of deportation, after being brought here as children.

LGBT Equality Act to outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender-identity in employment, housing, education, and public spaces.

Dear Representative: I urge you to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander communities by supporting the:

The$LGBT$Equality$Act!!

Lesbian,!gay,!bisexual,!transgender,!and!queer!(LGBTQ)!Americans!lack!basic!legal!protections!in! states!across!the!country.!The!patchwork!nature!of!current!laws!leaves!millions!of!people! subject!to!uncertainty!and!potential!discrimination!that!impacts!their!safety,!their!families,!and! their!dayEtoEday!lives,!especially!in!states!like!TX,!FL,!PA,!GA,!LA,!etc.!! !

Our!nation’s!civil!rights!laws!protect!people!on!the!basis!of!race,!color,!national!origin,!and!in! most!cases,!sex,!disability,!and!religion.!But!federal!law!does!not!provide!consistent!nonE discrimination!protections!based!on!sexual!orientation!or!gender!identity.!Nearly!twoEthirds!of!

LGBTQ!Americans!report!having!experienced!discrimination!in!their!personal!lives.!! !

The!Equality!Act!would!provide!consistent!and!explicit!nonEdiscrimination!protections!for!

LGBTQ!people!across!key!areas!of!life,!including!employment,!housing,!credit,!education,!public! spaces!and!services,!federally!funded!programs,!and!jury!service.!! !

The!Equality!Act!would!amend!existing!civil!rights!laws!to!explicitly!include!sexual!orientation! and!gender!identity!as!protected!characteristics.!It!also!amends!the!Civil!Rights!Act!of!1964!to! prohibit!discrimination!in!public!spaces!and!services!and!federally!funded!programs!on!the!basis! of!sex.!Additionally,!the!Equality!Act!would!update!the!public!spaces!and!services!covered!in! current!law!to!include!retail!stores,!services!such!as!banks!and!legal!services,!and!transportation! services.!These!important!updates!would!strengthen!existing!protections!for!everyone.! !

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$ The$Dream$Act!!

Of!the!approximately!11!million!undocumented!immigrants!in!the!United!States,!more!than!a! million!are!undocumented!young!people!who!were!brought!to!the!United!States!as!minors!and! have!spent!most!of!their!lives!living!in!the!United!States.!! !

The!Dream!Act!will!protect!young!undocumented!immigrants,!who!are!vulnerable!to! deportation,!many!of!whom!are!Deferred!Action!for!Childhood!Arrivals!(DACA)!recipients.!!! !

The!DACA!program!has!allowed!800,000!young!people!to!live,!work,!and!study!in!the!United!

States!without!fear!of!deportation,!after!being!brought!here!as!children.!!169,000!APIs!are! eligible!for!DACA.!!267,000!undocumented!immigrants!are!LGBT.!!!! !

However,!President!Trump!has!vowed!to!end!DACA,!many!LGBT!API!youth!could!be!deported!to! countries!that!criminalize!homosexuality.!!Several!lawsuits!have!temporarily!delayed,!but! cannot!permanently!block!Trump’s!cancellation!of!DACA.!!Congress!still!needs!to!act!to!save!

DACA!and!find!a!permanent!solution!for!the!Dreamers.! !

Undocumented!LGBTQ!people!experience!compounded!discrimination!due!to!their!sexual! orientation,!gender!identity,!and!immigration!status.!Approximately!75,000!Dreamers!are!

LGBTQ,!and!36,000!of!them!have!gotten!relief!through!DACA.! !

In!a!third!of!countries!around!the!world,!it!is!a!crime!to!be!LGBTQ.!Thousands!of!people!every! year!are!arrested,!harassed!and!even!murdered!because!of!their!sexual!orientation!or!gender! identity.!Sending!LGBTQ!Dreamers!back!to!these!countries!would!gravely!threaten!their!health! and!safety.! !

The!Dream!Act!would!provide!Dreamers!the!opportunity!to!apply!for!permanent!legal!status! and!eventually!become!eligible!for!U.S.!citizenship.!It!allows!current,!former,!and!future! undocumented!highEschool!graduates!and!GED!recipients!a!threeEstep!pathway!to!U.S.! citizenship!through!college,!work,!or!the!armed!services.! !

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The Reuniting Families Act of 2019 - Bill Summary Reintroduced by Congresswoman Judy Chu Family unity is a core American value. Families are the cornerstone of our communities and the most fundamental institution of our society. Family unity promotes physical and mental health and well-being, security, and prosperity. Family relationships do not end when children grow up. Rather, they extend beyond current family sponsorship categories (spouse, children, parents, and siblings) and include Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) families. Our immigration system must promote family unity and family reunification.

Immigration is fundamentally about people planting permanent roots in a new country. It should take into account the human need to live with and care for one’s family. Our current family-based immigration system, including the diversity visa program and refugee and asylum programs, have contributed to strong, vibrant and diverse American communities, making the United States the country that it is today.

However, the current family-based immigration system has not been updated in 20 years—keeping spouses, children, and their parents separated for years and often decades. There are nearly 4 million people in the family immigration backlog waiting unconscionable periods of time to reunite with their family members.

The Reuniting Families Act reflects our moral values by reuniting family members to strengthen our communities and our economy. This bill would reduce family immigration visa backlogs and promote humane and timely reunification of immigrant families. Specifically, the bill would: Clear the Family-based & Employment-based Backlogs: ●

Recapture Immigrant Visas Lost to Bureaucratic Delay—The bill would recapture unused employmentbased and family-sponsored visas from fiscal years 1992-2015. For future years, unused visa numbers will automatically “roll over” to the next fiscal year. Between 1992–2009, there were over 240,000 unused family-based preference visas and 506,000 unused employment-based visas.

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Reclassify Spouses & Minor Children of Green Card Holders as “Immediate Relatives”—The bill would help spouses, permanent partners, and children under the age of 21 of lawful permanent residents who are waiting in line to reunite with their families by reclassifying them as “immediate relatives,” a category not subject to annual numerical limits.

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Eliminate the Counting of Derivatives Towards the Visa Caps—This bill would prevent derivative visa recipients (spouses, permanent partners, and children of immigrants who are eligible to “accompany” or “follow to join” the primary applicant) from being counted towards the categorical or per-country caps.

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Raise the Per-Country Limits—The bill would address the decades-long backlogs from certain countries by raising the per-country immigration limits from 7% to 20%.

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Create a Ten Year Maximum Wait Time—The bill would provide that once a beneficiary has been waiting in line for 10 years, they are no longer subject to the per-country or categorical visa caps.

Provide Relief for Orphans, Widows & Equal Treatment to All Stepchildren: ●

The bill would protect widows, widowers, and orphans by allowing them to continue to wait in line for a visa after the death of a sponsoring relative.

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The bill would afford the same protection to the children of fiancés of U.S. citizens, preventing them from aging out of the visa application process that other married immigrant visa holders have pursuant to the Child Status Protection Act.

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The bill would provide equal treatment for stepchildren by allowing stepchildren under the age of 21 to be reclassified as “immediate relatives” upon their parent’s marriage or permanent partnership (current age limit is 18).

Provide Greater Enforcement Relief to Reunify & Keep Families Together: ●

This bill would repeal the three- and ten-year bars, as well as the permanent bar on admission for individuals unlawfully present in the United States from adjusting to legal status.

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This bill would narrow the instances of inadmissibility or deportability for those who willfully misrepresent (versus falsely represent) himself or herself to be a citizen of the United States by accepting any alien under the age of 21 at the time of making the willful misrepresentation.

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This bill would increase the government’s discretion and flexibility in waiving grounds of inadmissibility or deportability in the case of an immigrant who is the parent, spouse, permanent partner, son or daughter of a citizen or LPR, in instances that would not be contrary to the national welfare, safety, or security of the United States, or for humanitarian purposes, family unity, or public interest.

Provide Relief for Spouses, Permanent Partners, and Children on H-4 Visas: ●

The bill would allow spouses, permanent partners, and children of H1-B visa holders to contribute to the economy with work authorization.

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The bill would also prevent the children of H1-B visa holders from aging out of the derivative visa or adjustment of status application by using the age of the child from the date the employment-based petition was filed.

Eliminate Discrimination Facing LGBTQ Families Throughout Our Immigration Laws: ●

This bill includes the Uniting American Families Act of 2013 (H.R. 5889, 110th Cong.), which would permit U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents in binational same-sex relationships to sponsor their permanent partner for immigration to the U.S. Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on June 26, 2013 in United States v. Windsor, this bill would help individuals whose permanent partner is from a country that does not recognize same-sex marriage. It would also ensure that same-sex refugee partners are resettled together and that asylum grantees can have their nonmarried partners “follow to join” them in the U.S.

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The bill would extend acquired automatic citizenship to children born to at least one U.S. citizen parent regardless of a biological relationship to that parent. These provisions apply to children born through Assisted Reproductive Technology and children adopted within the first year of their life.

Ensure Retention of Priority Dates: ●

The bill would correct a drafting error in the Child Status Protection Act to protect children from aging out of the visa application as a result of processing delays on the part of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services or the Department of State.

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The bill would provide that a beneficiary of any family- or employment-based petition shall retain his or her earliest priority date regardless of the category of subsequent petitions.

Create Exemption from Family Visa Limit for Certain Sons and Daughters of Veterans from the Philippines: ●

The bill would honor the contribution of Filipino World War II veterans by reducing their children’s waiting times for family-based visas.

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Radical Welcome

National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance.

Fill in the GAP

Radical welcome is about filling in the GAP, or building a bridge, so that people can move from feeling like outsiders to being members of a community.

Use GAP as a reminder for concrete ways to practice radical welcome!

G​reet/get moving!

Greet them with your voice. In addition to saying hello and introducing yourself, if you are able, meet them where they are, and make eye contact when talking.

A​sk questions & anticipate needs Get to know them by asking open-ended questions like these: ● “What brought you here today? Why did you come?” ● “How are you doing?” ● “How did you hear about this event?”

Anticipate needs by giving people relevant information without them having to ask for it. Let them know where they can find: ● Water and food ● Bathroom ● Sign-in/registration table ● Name tags ● Any materials needed ● Their seat

P​lug them in Don’t let people hang around awkwardly. Plug them into a task, person, or activity.

Examples: ● “Have you met Esther? Esther is someone I also just met at NQAPIA! It seems like you two might have a lot in common.” ● “Would you mind helping us set up these chairs in a circle?” ● “While you’re waiting for the event to get started, check out some of these materials!”

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Radical Welcome An Incomplete Checklist for Creating a Welcoming Environment

Before An Event: ❏ Create an invitation that outlines whether or not the space has stairs/elevators, chair and seating information, parking/transportation information, scent information, the route (if a march or parade), or whether or not childcare is provided. Include contact information so that people can reach out to someone with questions and concerns. ❏ Ask participants to come fragrance-free to respect the needs and health of those with chemical sensitivities. ❏ If providing food and beverages, ask for dietary restrictions and needs. Plan accordingly so that everyone is able to enjoy sustenance at the event. ❏ If the event is a potluck, make it an option to NOT bring an item. ❏ If the event is not accessible by public transit, coordinate transportation for those who do not have access to vehicles. ❏ Prepare needed translations of written materials and/or invite individuals who will be able to provide interpretation at the event. ❏ Personally invite individuals with a message with why you think they would be interested in the event. Reach out to those who are new to community or the organization and introduce yourself. ❏ Create an RSVP/registration form that asks for accessibility needs, dietary needs, and gender pronouns. If people reference accessibility questions, be sure to follow-up.

During An Event: ❏ Welcome people at the door to warmly greet participants. ❏ Make sure people know where bathrooms, food, exits, and rest areas are. ❏ Provide nametags for people to write their names and gender pronouns. ❏ Introduce yourself to people you don’t know. Ask them about themselves. Share something about yourself! ❏ Create opportunities in the event programming for participants to mingle and connect with others.

After An Event: ❏ Send thank you emails / notes to participants. Include ways for people to remain connected to the organization, work, or other participants. ❏ Reach out to participants who are new to the community or the organization and ask them how they enjoyed the event.

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Contacts Not all attendees are listed, but we encourage you to reach out to one another to continue building relationships and collaborating with one another.

Name

Organization

City

Sta te

Email

Aaryan Ramzan

Satrang

Los Angeles

CA

aaryanramzan@gmail.com

Adri Rosemebrt

ActBlue

Somerville

MA

rosembert@actblue.com

Akif Mahmud

KhushATX

Austin

akasbarta1@yahoo.com

ALEKSA MANILA

Pride ASIA

Seattle

TX W A

Alyssa Beauchamp

ActBlue

Boston

MA

beauchamp@actblue.com

Alyssa Lee

APIQS

Reston

VA

alyssa.linda.lee@gmail.com

Amanda Saich

NQAPIA

Somerville

MA

amanda@nqapia.org

Amber Myers

Caesars Entertainment

Las Vegas

NV

amyers3@caesars.com

Andrew Chou

NQAPIA

NY

NY

andrew.chou12@gmail.com

Anjali Rimi

GAPA

Oakland

CA

rimikoka@gmail.com

Anjum Asharia

CHAA

Sugar Land

anjumasharia@gmail.com

Ara-lei Yandall

UTOPIA Seattle

Kent

Arnaldo Inocentes

Seattle

Aruna Rao

Pride ASIA Desi Rainbow Parents & Allies

TX W A W A

Edison

NJ

desirainbowparents@gmail.com

Bashar Makhay

Tarab NYC

Brooklyn

NY

bashar@tarabnyc.org

Bodhi Alarcon

ATL Q+A

Atlanta

GA

bodhi.alarcon@gmail.com

Cathy Chu Cathy Dang-Santa Anna

Los Angeles

CA

cjchu0710@gmail.com

Brooklyn

NY

cathy@empoweredpolitics.org

Charmaine Hussain

NQAPIA Board Center for Empowered Politics Desi Rainbow Parents and Allies

Fremont

CA

charmaine.hussain@gmail.com

Christine Liu

Q-Wave

Brooklyn

NJ

liu.christinee@gmail.com

Christopher Kim

Columbia

MD

Christopherkim3@gmail.com

Clara H Yoon

KQT DC API Rainbow Parents of PFLAG NYC

New York

NY

clara.hjl.yoon@gmail.com

Conor Huynh

NQAPIA

Washington

DC

conor@nqapia.org

Darcy Nishi

Omusubi

San Francisco

CA

denishi@ucdavis.edu

Dex Louie

Los Angeles

CA

candexlouie@gmail.com

Dorababu Maddukuri

API Equality-LA Queer South Asian Collective

Waltham

MA

dorababu.maddukuri@gmail.com

Esther Lim

Asian Q&A Atlanta

Doraville

GA

Feroza Syed

Tucker

GA

Gabby Montoya

DesiQ Orlando Queer and Trans Asian Association

elim@advancingjustice-atlanta.org Ferozasyed@atlantafinehomes.co m

MELBOURNE

FL

gabby.montoya@oqtaa.com

Genie Hattig

Utopia Las Vegas

Las Vegas

NV

genie702@icloud.com

Glenn Magpantay

NQAPIA

Jackson Heights

NY

glenn_magpantay@nqapia.org

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founder@prideasia.org

ara@utopiaseattle.org arnaldo@dragchanteuse.com

H.K. Suh

KARP-DC (Korean American Rainbow Parents)

Arlington

VA

hksuh2003@yahoo.com

Heejun Choi

KQT-DC

Vienna

VA

puhijun@gmail.com

Hieu Nguyen

VROC

Garden Grove

CA

hieunuci02@yahoo.com

Huanvy Phan

APIENC

San Francisco

huanvy@apienc.org

Isyss Honnen

UTOPIA Seattle

SEATTLE

CA W A

Jackie Kim

Oakland

CA

jackieskim@gmail.com

James Huynh

Sam-Cha Viet Rainbow of Orange County

Fontana

CA

jhuynhbhs@gmail.com

Jasmin Hoo

APIENC

San Francisco

CA

jasmin@apienc.org

Jasmin Patel

KhushATX

Austin

TX

jasminruns@gmail.com

Jen Hopkinson

UTOPIA Alaska

Anchorage

AK

Jenhopkinson28@gmail.com

Jen Mai

QAPA

Cambridge

MA

jennifer.w.mai@gmail.com

Jenny Non

Washington

DC W A

jellynon@gmail.com

Jeremiah Sataraka

APIQS DC UTOPIA Eastern Washington

John Won

KQTcon

Oakland

wonjinkyu@gmail.com

Joseph Seia

UTOPIA Seattle

Burien

CA W A

Julia Rhee

NQAPIA Board

San Diego

CA

julia.rhee@gmail.com

Justice Gaines

Providence

RI

justice@prysm.us

Justin Unga

PRYSM Human Rights Campaign

Washington

DC

Justin.unga@hrc.org

Karen Lee

Q-Wave

Brooklyn

NY

Karen47lee@gmail.com

Karen Murakami

Faith - McKinney, TX

McKinney

TX

karen.murak@gmail.com

Karen Naimool

Desi Q Diaspora

Beacon

NY

karen.naimool@gmail.com

Kate Shim

Arlington

VA

kate.yj.shim@gmail.com

Ken Takeuchi

KARP-DC Takeuchi Productions LLC

Brooklyn

NY

kt@kentakeuchi.com

Kevin Chen

AQUA DC

Arlington

VA

aquadc@gmail.com

Kevin Park

KQTcon

Jackson Heights

NY

kevinpark93@gmail.com

Kham S. Moua

NQAPIA

Alexandria

VA

kmoua06@gmail.com

Khudai Tanveer

NQAPIA

Washington

DC

khudai@nqapia.org

Kim Huynh

Training for Change

Philadelphia

PA

kim.huynh22@gmail.com

Kim Nguyen

i2i

Chicago

IL

kim.win.nguyen@gmail.com

kimi chung

KARP LA

Fullerton

CA

kimichung@Hotmail.com

Kiwi Phong Nguyen

GAPIMNY

San Diego

CA

kiwipn@gmail.com

Kris Mizutani

Oakland

CA

ampersandhyphen@yahoo.com

Krittika Ghosh

Omusubi Asian/Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project

Washington

DC

krittika@dvrp.org

LIA POASA

UTOPIA SF

Richmond

CA

POASAS@YAHOO.COM

Lisa Hu

GAPA Foundation

Oakland

CA

lisa.hu@gapafoundation.org

Liz Haas

i2i

Northbrook

IL

liznhaas@gmail.com

LoAn Nguyen

API Rainbow Parents

New York

NY

loannguyen63@yahoo.com

Pullman

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isyss@utopiaseattle.org

jsataraka@gmail.com

joeseia83@gmail.com

Name

Organization

City

Sta te

Email

Seattle

W A

lourdez@apichaya.org

Lu Xun

API Chaya Community Marketing & Insights

San Francisco

CA

lu@communitymarketinginc.com

Malaya Manacop

GAPIMNY

New York

NY

malaya.manacop@gmail.com

Mani Soma

KhushDC UTOPIA Eastern Washington

Washington

soma.manikiran@gmail.com

Pullman

DC W A

Philadelphia

PA

mjswong88@gmail.com

Meili Criezis

PAQ Texas Queer Muslims: Houston

Houston

TX

meilicriezis@gmail.com

Miae Bok

NAKASEC

Annandale

VA

mbok@nakasec.org

Milap Patel

Brooklyn

NY

milapp@gmail.com

Ming Yuan Ren

NQAPIA API Rainbow Parents of pflag NYC

FLUSHING

NY

Mingyren13@gmail.com

Mira Kim

Samcha Chicago

Chicago

IL

mira.q.kim@gmail.com

Mirna Haidar

Tarab NYC

brooklyn

NY

mirna@tarabnyc.org

Mitch Chan

APIQS APIQWTC and Omusubi Caribbean Equality Project

Urbana

IL

michellemchan02@gmail.com

El Cerrito

CA

chibicup@gmail.com

Queens

NY

Info@caribbeanequalityproject.org

Portland

OR

moofmayeda@gmail.com

My Nguyen

NQAPIA Viet Rainbow of Orange County

Garden Grove

CA

myisanguyener@gmail.com

Naushaba Patel

Texas Queer Muslims

Houston

TX

Patel.naushaba@gmail.com

Navid Ladha

NQAPIA

Austin

TX

navidladha@gmail.com

NEO VEAVEA

San Francisco

CA

UTOPIASF.ORG@GMAIL.COM

Nica Ramirez

UTOPIA SF Orlando Queer & Trans Asian Association

Orlando

FL

nica.ramirez@oqtaa.com

Nick Kor

NQAPIA

Saint Paul

MN

kor.nicholas@gmail.com

Nikhil Londhe

San Francisco

CA

Nikhil@trikone.org

Noel Ramirez

Trikone Philadelphia Asian and queer (PAQ)

Philadelphia

PA

noelbramirez@gmail.com

Patrick Canteros

NQAPIA

Midlothian

VA

intern@nqapia.org

Patrick G. Lee

NQAPIA Queer Asian PacificIslander Alliance

New York

NY

patrick@nqapia.org

Cambridge

MA

Elise.zhou@uconn.edu

San Francisco

CA

ryan@apienc.org

Saenam Kim

APIENC Korean American Rainbow Parents

Astoria

NY

saenam.kim@gmail.com

Sai Ali

SALGA NYC

New York

NY

Alisaif53@gmail.com

Sam Yu

NAKASEC

Chicago

IL

syu@nakasec.org

Sammie Ablaza Wills

APIENC

San Francisco

CA

sammie@apienc.org

Sandy Hong

KQTCon

Long Island City

NY

sandywhyhong@gmail.com

Sasha Pereira

Satrang

Alhambra

CA

sasha@satrang.org

Lourdez Velasco

Manu Thomas Matthew Wong

Mizuki Shiraishi Mohamed Q. Amin moof mayeda

Rae Zhou Ryan Dang

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manufanua.thomas@wsu.edu

Saurabh Bajaj

National LGBTQ Task Force

New York

NY

sbajaj@thetaskforce.org

Scott Tanaka

AARP

Washington

DC

stanaka@aarp.org

Seah Hong

SAM CHA Bay Area

San Jose

CA

Hsh4953@hotmail.com

Sean Munar

AQUA DC Progressive Asian American Christians

Upper Marlboro

MD

SFMunar@email.msmary.edu

San Jose

CA

spoondocs@yahoo.com

Portland

OR

sjoshi222@gmail.com

Houston

TX

shogo.reyes@gmail.com

shreya shah

NQAPIA Collective of Houston Asian Americans (CHAA) saltwater training and consulting

Oakland

CA

shreyashah05@gmail.com

Shruthi Kannan

Trikone Chicago

Chicago

IL

shruthi@trikonechicago.org

Sohum Chokshi

Trikone Chicago

Roselle

IL

sohum@trikonechicago.org

Sonali Jagdhane

Khush DC

Washington

DC

jjagdhane1@gmail.com

Sparks

Masto Foundation

San Francisco

CA

Sparks@mastofoundation.org

Stacey Shigaya

PFLAG

Denver

CO

Shigaya@comcast.net

Stacia Kato-Takayesu

SGV API PFLAG

Cypress

CA

staciakato@gmail.com

Stan Fong

Atlanta

GA

eggrollstan@gmail.com

Stevie Vu

NQAPIA Viet Rainbow of Orange County

Garden Grove

CA

1019vu@gmail.com

Sumon Ray

Desi Queer Diaspora

Atlanta

GA

sumonray16@gmail.com

Sunjay Kumar

Invisible to Invincible

Chicago

sunjaydk@gmail.com

Taffy Johnson

UTOPIA Seattle

Kent

IL W A

Tafi Alicia Toleafoa

Anchorage

AK

Tafi.toleafoa@gmail.com

Taissa Morimoto

UTOPIA Alaska National LGBTQ Task Force

Wheaton

MD

tmorimoto@thetaskforce.org

tara gonsalves

Desi Q

Berkeley

CA

gonsalves.tara@gmail.com

Tay Nguyen

GAPA Foundation

San Francisco

CA

Tay.nguyen@gapafoundation.org

Tejinder K. Gill

Desi Rainbow Parents Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM)

Bloomfield Hills

MI

tej.international@gmail.com

Providence

RI

tati@prysm.us

Weehawken

NJ

dalitdiva@gmail.com

Theo Brown

Equality Labs Caribbean Equality Project

Queens

NY

info@caribbeanequality.org

Tiff Chang

APIQWTC

San Rafael

CA

tiffanychangdesign@gmail.com

Tony King

GAPA

Oakland

CA

vchair@gapa.org

Tracy Zhao

API Equality-LA

Los Angeles

CA

tracy@apiequalityla.org

Ty Matsunaga

GAPIMNY

New York

NY

ty.hoashi.matsunaga@gmail.com

Will Lim

APIAVote

Washington

DC

programs@apiavote.org

Yuan Wang

APIENC

San Francisco

CA

yuan@apienc.org

Zaha Cheema

APIENC

San Francisco

CA

zaha@apienc.org

Serena Poon Shilpa Joshi Shogo Hight

Ten Hall Thenmozhi Soundararajan

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taffy@utopiaseattle.org

Presenter Bios Adri Rosembert, ActBlue Adri is a Nonprofit Outreach Manager at ActBlue. They joined the Nonprofit Team after a few years of organizing, facilitating, and doing advocacy work focused on economic justice at a women's shelter in Boston. In their current role, Adri helps nonprofits optimize their digital fundraising programs and empower their grassroots supporters to take action by making the most of ActBlue's tools.

Alyssa Beauchamp, ActBlue Motivated by her deep commitment to justice and equity, Alyssa's career is a winding road of nonprofit program management, civil rights advocacy, undergraduate student leadership development, and social justice education. As a first generation college graduate, Queer Woman of Color, and descendant of AfroPuerto Rican ancestors, her love of cultivating community to create change has taken her from Washington, D.C. to Bloomington, IN, and now to Boston. Her current role as Partnerships Manager at ActBlue, a nonprofit building grassroots fundraising technology for the left, allows her to build relationships with other progressive organizations and digital fundraising practitioners across the country.

Don’t hesitate to reach out to her if you’re passionate about small-dollar digital fundraising tools and resources for People of Color building political power, organizer training programs, the 2020 census, voting rights, or progressive nonprofits.

Amanda Saich, NQAPIA Amanda Saich is thrilled about working to develop resources and funds to facilitate movement building. She is a multiracial queer immigrant with family from China and England and grew up mostly in cute, cushy, suburban New England. She earned her BA from Vassar College in Chinese Culture and Linguistic Studies and the interdisciplinary program of Science, Technology, and Society. During her time there, she developed her first queer community through her involvement in identitybased orgs and the rugby team and has since sought out to build these spaces around her.

Amanda has experience developing grassroots fundraising programs for dozens of nonprofits during her time at ActBlue as Nonprofit Outreach Associate and working with local groups in the Hudson Valley during her college years. She is passionate about how digital tools can provide instruments to reconstruct power and elevate marginalized narratives. In her free time, you can find her working on local environmental justice initiatives within API and immigrant communities, jamming out to live music, sketching/drawing, or bingeing the latest Netflix series.

Amber Myers, Caesars Entertainment As the Event Manager for one of Las Vegas’ most lively properties, Amber does more than wrangle street buskers and artists. Taking on the task of electrifying the Linq Promenade’s entertainment district by utilizing her unique professional experiences as a Marketing and Sales Coordinator for iHeart Radio, Promotions Director for then Clear Channel Communications, LGBTQ nightclub owner, burlesque dive bar designer and owner/operator, nightclub promoter and even drag king, Amber uses her natural charisma and collaborative, hands-on style to bring the most talented, innovative artists and entertainment to the center of the strip for Caesars Entertainment.

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Clara Yoon, API Rainbow Parents of PFLAG NYC CLARA YOON is a parent of a bi/queer son with trans experience. She is the founder of the API Rainbow Parents of PFLAG NYC chapter, a group providing support for LGBTQ individuals and families of Asian heritage. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the PFLAG NYC chapter. Clara is passionate about supporting and advocating for LGBTQ youths specifically to prevent bullying, suicide and homelessness. She also believes in the importance of improving LGBTQ equality in API homelands and faith groups to create better acceptance to LGBTQ individuals within the API communities.

Aruna Rao, Desi Rainbow Parents & Families Aruna Rao is the proud mother of a transgender child who is dedicated to creating a loving, inclusive world for LGBTQ+ people. Aruna is the founder of Desi Rainbow Parents & Allies, an organization developed to promote South Asian family acceptance. She also serves on the steering committee of API Rainbow Parents of PFLAG NYC.

Cathy Dang Cathy Dang has organized in labor and community-led development for nearly 15 years with Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, the Retail Action Project, and other grassroots organizations. She is formerly the Executive Director of CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities where she developed a robust organizational infrastructure to lead campaigns on equitable rezoning, protecting dozens of Chinatown homes from predatory landlords, and improving living conditions in NYC's public housing. Cathy has played a critical role in shaping national alliances towards building greater political alignment on racial, gender and economic justice. She is originally from Ridgewood, Queens and Los Angeles, California, and a daughter of Chinese-Vietnamese refugee parents who raised her in their nail salon in Downtown Brooklyn.

Conor Huynh, NQAPIA Conor Huynh is a trans masculine Vietnamese American administrative assistant based in Washington, DC. He firmly believes that anything can and should be made into a spreadsheet. Conor received his B.S. in Psychology with a focus in industrial/organizational psychology and Minor in Asian American Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park. He enjoys photography, being queer, and reading on the metro.

H.K. Suh, Korean American Rainbow Parents (KARP) H.K. Suh of Arlington, Virginia is proud father of gay son. He is a co-founder of the Korean American Rainbow Parents (KARP), the first such national organization, and was instrumental in launching the KQTDC (Korean Queer & Transgender Organization of DC).

He is also the president of NAKA (National Association of Korean Americans).

Glenn D. Magpantay, Esq., NQAPIA Glenn D. Magpantay, Esq. is Executive Director of the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA). He has worked in the movement for LGBTQ rights and equality for over twenty-five years. Before, Glenn had a long and distinguished career as a civil rights attorney as the Democracy Program Director at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), where he worked to protect and promote the voting rights and political participation of Asian Americans. He continues to inspire new legal minds and future advocates

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by teaching Race & the Law at Brooklyn Law School and Asian American Civil Rights at Hunter College/CUNY. Glenn organized the first-ever LGBTQ testimony before the White House Initiative on Asian Americans & Pacific Islander in 2000. He was named as one of Instinct Magazine’s “25 Leading Men of 2004”. In 1994, he spoke at the National March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation. Glenn attended the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook on Long Island, and as a beneficiary of affirmative action, graduated cum laude from the New England School of Law, in Boston.

Justin Unga, Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Justin Unga brings over a decade of political, policy, and campaign experience to his role as HRC's Deputy National Campaign Director. Prior to joining the staff of HRC, Justin served as the communications director for Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema (DAZ) and later Congresswoman Katherine Clark (D-MA). During his time on Capitol Hill, Justin spearheaded media efforts focusing on immigration, empowering marginalized communities, gun violence, and cyber-abuse. Justin previously served as deputy executive director for the Arizona Democratic Party, where he worked between 2007 and 2012. In his role, he led efforts to increase voter registration, strengthen the state’s grassroots operation, maximize participation in party caucuses and conventions, and increase public engagement in Arizona’s unique redistricting process. In his role as HRC's Deputy National Campaign Director, Justin manages campaign staff and the electoral and legislative efforts in 21 states. He resides in Washington, D.C.

Karen Murakami Third-generation (Sansei) Japanese-American, resident of McKinney, Texas and proud mother of two gay sons. Since coming out of sons in 2013, journey has been personal education about LGBTQ issues and how the Christian church has marginalized LGBTQ individuals. Led to forming Open Arms Support Group at former church to provide a safe and inclusive environment as well as education. Currently supporting coordination and facilitation series of faith/family acceptance workshops. Karen is a Project Manager at Toyota. (Pronouns: she/her)

Khudai Tanveer, NQAPIA Khudai Tanveer is the Membership Organizer at the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA). Their relationship with NQAPIA started as a mesmerized Creating Change API Institute attendant in 2015 and 2016, continued as an internship during the summer of 2017, leading to the position of membership organizer currently.

Previously having attended the Summer Activist Training, NQAPIA’s Direct Action Training, East Coast Solidarity Summer, and having helped facilitate People over Pride Youth Camp (POP!) with NQAPIA, they feel strongly about youth work, learning from those who came before us, and building a healthy/sustainable community for years to come with those that command the future with the lessons of those who came before us. Their personal passions revolve around building accountability and restorative justice for our community and feel excited about doing that with NQAPIA. Their genuine hope is to grow and build with/for the API queer community.

Kim Huynh Kim Huynh is a trainer, facilitator, and organizer based in Philly. She is currently proudly the organizing director for the Philly region at the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Over the last decade, Kim has organized alongside: immigrant black and brown women for safe and dignified workplaces and multiracial faith

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groups for living wage jobs in Philly; community organizations fighting against gentrification in Houston's Black, Chicanx, and Southeast Asian working class neighborhoods, and others. A 2015 graduate of the Judith C. Jones Fellowship for Trainers of Color with Training for Change, Kim brings her rebel heart and an unwavering belief that transformation is possible and constant to her liberation work with LGBTQ+ and people of color-led projects. As the queer first-born daughter of first-generation Vietnamese refugee immigrants, she bridges continents, cultures, languages, issues, and identities and brings that bridging into her organizing and facilitation. She's an unabashed dog mom and karaoke shouter who loves to be in/near the water.

Krittika Ghosh, API Domestic Violence Resource Project (DVRP) Krittika (she/her/hers) is the Executive Director of the Asian/Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project (DVRP) where she develops innovative programming to respond to and end gender-based violence. Krittika is a queer, immigrant survivor. She has extensive experience in developing and facilitating preventative programs on gender based violence in the US and Canada for the past 20 years and uses an anti-racism, antioppression framework in her work to center the needs of those who are most marginalized including LGBTQ+ folks and survivors with disabilities. She has deep experience in community engagement, policy development and program management. Krittika’s intersectional work in the A/PI community also includes being a community organizer on post 9/11 hate crimes, extensive work as an organizer on domestic workers rights and in developing a community-based diabetes program in the NYC based Bangladeshi community. Krittika co-founded the Shakti Peer Group, a peer engagement model responding to gender-based violence in South Asian communities in New York City. She has been recognized for her work by the City of New York, The Filipino Women's Network, and was one of Mother Board Magazine's "Person of the Year" in 2017 for her work in ending violence against women.

She holds a Master’s degree in Gender Studies from the London School of Economics & Political Science. In her free time, Krittika usually has her nose in a book and is the ultimate dictionary of all Bollywood gossip.

Lo’An Nguyen, API Rainbow Parents of PFLAG NYC Lo’An Nguyen is a former classroom teacher who recently relocated to New York from an international teaching assignment. She joined PFLAG-NYC in January 2018 shortly after her biracial queer daughter with trans experience came out the second time to her.

Lo’An is a Community Speaker for PFLAG going into many schools for presentations with students, teachers, and parents on Safe Schools Program. Lo’An is passionate about cultivating a safe space for all LGBTQ+ community and allies with her message of Leaning Into Love. Lo’An was invited to join the Asian Rainbow Parents in the capacity of Steering Committee Member to work with various programs and directives based on her broad interest with mindfulness as a way of being. Though she is new to the community of LGBTQ+, Loan has an open heart and mind to soak up knowledge, assimilate the information, and apply what she learns to improving qualities of life for her daughter and many chosen sons and daughters of Viet origin.

Karen Naimool Karen Naimool is an Indo-Caribbean transplant, passionate about creating safe spaces for all. With over 15 years of experience working with children and families, she has used non-traditional teaching methods and recreation to teach coping skills to victims of trauma. She is an outspoken advocate on issues affecting immigration, marriage equality, domestic violence, and human rights on local, national and international levels. As an educator and activist, Karen has facilitated workshops and trainings on healthy relationships, Cultural Competence, Institutional racism, Domestic Violence, Healing from Trauma and Negotiating Consent in same-sex relationships. This October, she will be facilitating a workshop at the In My Mind an LGBTQ People of Color mental health conference.

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She has served on the steering committee of SALGA-NYC and continues to serve the Queer South Asian community of New York. She is a member of QSANN (Queer South Asian National NetWork) and is working in partnership with Sadhana: A coalition of progressive Hindus on creating safe spaces for Hindu LGBTQ individuals. Karen is in the process planning Desi-Q and working on an endeavor to bring Healing Spaces to all People of Color.

Sam Yu, NAKASEC Sam Yu (they/them) is a queer Korean American born and raised in Virginia who now lives in Chicago. Sam is the Communications Coordinator with NAKASEC, a national community based organization that organizes Korean and Asian Americans towards social, racial, and economic justice. In their free time, Sam enjoys discussing race, sexuality, gender, and watching Pose on FX.

Sammie Ablaza Wills, APIENC Sammie is an enthusiastic, queer, non-binary Pilipinx organizer passionate about supporting people in reclaiming their inherent power and dignity. They currently serve as Director of APIENC, a trans and queer Asian and Pacific Islander grassroots organization in the SF Bay Area. Sammie's political journey started with witnessing xenophobia against their family, fighting budget cuts in public schools, and learning about trans Pilipinos fighting colonization. In the past half-decade, Sammie has trained hundreds of young, trans, queer, Asian people to become values-based organizers. They believe that anything can be turned into a chant and brought onto the streets (literally and emotionally).

Saurabh Bajaj, the National LGBTQ Task Force Saurabh is the Chief Development Officer at the National LGBTQ Task Force. The Task Force works to secure full freedom, justice, equity, and equality for LGBTQ people. Saurabh has been a fundraiser and activist for LGBTQ equality since he came out at UC Berkeley, volunteering and then working at HIV and LGBTQ health organizations in San Francisco for many years before his time at the Task Force. He deeply believes that fundraising is social justice, not only as a transfer of wealth but also as a way for people of all means to have their values recognized through their dollars. He is proud to have helped raise millions for the LGBTQ movement over the past two decades.

Scott Tanaka, AARP Scott Tanaka is a project specialist for the Center to Champion Nursing in America (CCNA), an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He supports the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action’s, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Steering Committee and other key stakeholder’s efforts around building and promoting a Culture of Health and Health Equity through a more diverse nursing workforce.

Before joining CCNA, Scott was with AARP’s Multicultural Leadership team and supported the Asian American Pacific Islander Audience Strategy. Scott obtained a master’s degree in social work from the University of Southern California, and received his bachelor’s degree in psychology from Biola University in La Mirada, Calif.

Shreya Shah, Saltwater Training shreya is a south asian queer gender fluid femme facilitator, trainer, coach, and visual artist based in california. they have over 12 years of experience in education and facilitation. shreya is the founding director of Saltwater Social Justice Training, rooted in the vision that “the antidote for most things is saltwater- sweat, tears, or the sea". shreya creates transformative spaces for personal and collective liberation that grows from the alchemy of sweat/hard work and discipline in action; tears/embracing the complexity of being human, from joy to grief; and the sea/nurturing and replenishing our spirits, especially through honoring

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connection to the natural world. They support the capacity building and development of grassroots groups, collectives, healers, activists and organizers, and organizations domestically and internationally with both Saltwater and Training for Change. Visit www.saltwatertraining.org to find out more.

Sparks, Masto Foundation Sparks (she/her) values and is committed to promoting equity in the non-profit and forprofit social impact sectors based on her experience as a queer, multi-racial, next generation, woman in philanthropy. She is currently the Executive Director of the Masto Foundation, a US-based family foundation rooted in the Japanese-American community. Prior to taking on leadership at the foundation, Sparks worked in philanthropy for 14 years, founded an affinity group for Queer Leaders in Philanthropy, and helped develop several LGBTQ giving circles. Sparks lives in San Francisco with her puppy named Panda.

Taissa Morimoto, the National LGBTQ Task Force Taissa currently works on criminal and economic justice, reproductive justice, and census advocacy as senior policy counsel at the National LGBTQ Task Force. She received her bachelor’s degrees and J.D. from the University of Florida, where she represented survivors of intimate partner violence and led workshops on civil rights restoration. Shortly after receiving their bar license in Florida, she moved to Washington, DC to work in public policy. During their first year in DC, they worked at the SIECUS on sex education policy.

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NQAPIA Staff Glenn D. Magpantay, Executive Director Khudai Tanveer, Membership Organizer Amanda Saich, Development Assistant Conor Huynh, Administrative Assistant

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Linda Le, Bookkeeper Patrick G. Lee, grant writer Janani Balasubramanian, Social Media Consultant Roberta Sklar, Media Consultant Contact NQAPIA P.O. Box 1277 Old Chelsea Station New York, NY 10113 NQAPIA 1322 18th Street, NW Washington, DC 20036 Website: www.nqapia.org Email: info@nqapia.org Instagram: @NQAPIA Facebook: www.facebook.com/nqapia Twitter: @nqapia; #nqapia Youtube: youtube.com/nqapia NQAPIA Board of Directors Stan Fong, Atlanta, GA Shilpa Joshi, Portland, OR Andrew Chou, New York, NY Navid Ladha, Austin, TX Julia Rhee, San Francisco, CA Kham Moua, Washington, DC Moof Mayeda, Portland, OR Cathy Chu, Los Angeles, CA Kevin Lam, Boston, MA Milap Patel, New York, NY Nick Kor, Minneapolis, MN Kim Nguyen, Chicago, IL Chris Pinto, Washington, DC

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